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Old 11-17-2010, 11:08 PM   #3
xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Personally I think the "bad guys" are being short-sighted. You could do just as much damage by blowing yourself up at a major sporting event or at the mall on a crowded weekend, and that sort of thing would have a much greater impact on our collective mental state, since it would convince us that it could happen to anyone anywhere, not just in heavily-controlled air travel. I'm honestly stunned that it hasn't happened yet.
Maybe because in their world people dying a sporting events is normal. Whereas planes falling is seen as an accomplishment, since all the enemies that have threatened them for the last hundred years have done so from the air.
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