Annie
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Not a matter of if, but rather when:
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200407060845.asp
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http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200407060845.asp
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July 06, 2004, 8:45 a.m.
Another 9/11?
The awful response that we dare not speak about.
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So what would the United States do the next time we are hit? Strike who or what and where, when, and how? The problem with the likes of a supposedly nation-less bin Laden, Zarkawi, or their copy-catters, we are told, is that they are like metastasizing brain tumors whose ganglia are deeply embedded in the surrounding tissue. Surgery or chemotherapy often kills the host as well as the cancer. They and their stealthy patrons both know and count on just that ambiguity and imprecision as if Americans never operate on malignant brain tumors.
.....Without the direct aid of an Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, the secret support of rogue elements within the Saudi Arabian, Jordanian, and Pakistani governments, and millions on the Arab Street, the killer cadres simply could not carry out their next large attack. Most Arabs are shocked at the beheadings; but even those who know where the beheaders live and sleep are not so shocked at seeing Westerners sliced and diced to turn the killers in.
Thus on 9/12 we saw Middle East governments like the Saudis (whose 15 citizens spearheaded the murder), the Baathist Iraqis, the Syrians, the Iranians, the Taliban, and the Lebanese all sort of publicly disassociate themselves from the murder even as many of their populations polled silent approval and their own smirking intelligence services shrugged that some such attack was always inevitable and perhaps salutary after all given our support for Israel and our intrinsically satanic nature....
...Perhaps it would be best to inform hostile countries right now of a (big) list of their assets military bases, power plants, communications, and assorted infrastructure that will be taken out in the aftermath of another attack, a detailed sequence of targets that will be activated when the culpable terrorists' bases and support networks are identified and confirmed. We would have to draft a formal declaration of war as we should have against the Taliban, bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein against those countries that harbored or even aided the next 9/11-like cell. Both sides should anticipate the consequences should another 3,000 Americans be incinerated at work.....