The New 9/11

the janitor · May 24, 2008

So how long do you think it will be before another 9/11-style terrorist attack against the United States? It's not like they've stopped the Al-Qaeda or won the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. WHat do you think the response will be if and when it happens again?

bush_cheney2004 · May 24, 2008

So how long do you think it will be before another 9/11-style terrorist attack against the United States? It's not like they've stopped the Al-Qaeda or won the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. WHat do you think the response will be if and when it happens again?

Make up your mind...."if" is not consistent with the first part of your post. It's like asking when it will happen in Canada and what will be the response, since clearly Canada has not erradicated Al Qaeda. Hell, it has its hands full with just Hell's Angels bikers. :lol:

M.Dancer · May 24, 2008

So how long do you think it will be before another 9/11-style terrorist attack against the United States?

It will be later. Possibly this century or sooner.

Sooner or later, but not before that.

margrace · May 24, 2008

It will be later. Possibly this century or sooner.
Sooner or later, but not before that.

For those of you who believe in a vengeful God, don't you think people of the East and People of the American prairies are experiencing it all ready.

bush_cheney2004 · May 24, 2008

For those of you who believe in a vengeful God, don't you think people of the East and People of the American prairies are experiencing it all ready.

No...it is being experienced in Burma and China! :lol:

bush_cheney2004 · May 24, 2008

Bump

Edited May 24, 2008 by bush_cheney2004

Kitchener · May 24, 2008

So how long do you think it will be before another 9/11-style terrorist attack against the United States? It's not like they've stopped the Al-Qaeda or won the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. WHat do you think the response will be if and when it happens again?

Don't sound so longing. Plenty of folks are still getting good use out of the old 9/11. I doubt they'll need a new one for a while yet.

M.Dancer · May 25, 2008

Plenty of folks think a 9-11 is something you "need".

No accounting for folks, is there?

Kitchener · May 25, 2008

No indeed, there is not.

Once the old 9/11 is too old, what form will Rudy 9iu11ani's aphasia take? Without a new 9/11, will he lose the ability to speak altogether?

And once the everything that was changed by 9/11 needs to be changed in turn, how will that be done? Without a new 9/11, what will change everything?

What will kill irony again, now that it seems to have come back to life?

What if the USA encounters some imminently potential possible eventual conceivable threat, the preemptive attack of which cannot be justified by endless appeal to the old 9/11?

So, sure. Someday some folks will need a new 9/11. But for the time being, the old 9/11 is delivering perfectly satisfactory results.

eyeball · May 25, 2008

WHat do you think the response will be if and when it happens again?

A right-wing putsch, just like the last time.

Edited May 25, 2008 by eyeball

bush_cheney2004 · May 25, 2008

A right-wing putsch, just like the last time.

Gosh, I hope so. Milking an Air India bombing with 25 years of court hearings is sooooooo booooooorrrring!

August1991 · May 25, 2008

So, sure. Someday some folks will need a new 9/11. But for the time being, the old 9/11 is delivering perfectly satisfactory results.

Don't be so narcissistic, Kitchener. This isn't about us. You make 9/11 sound like a domestic issue. It's not. There's a real world out there inhabited by real people. It's not a Hollywood movie.

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Last summer, there were terror attacks in Glasgow and a well-developed plan in Frankfurt stopped before its execution.

In my pessimistic moments, I reckon that we may have to do as Israel and adopt some very severe measures.

Wilber · May 25, 2008

They've had almost seven years, what's keeping them?

eyeball · May 25, 2008

In my optimistic moments I recall what I heard a US oldtimer say within days of 9/11, and in so many words - 'we should just come home and stay here. We don't need the world'.

bush_cheney2004 · May 25, 2008

They've had almost seven years, what's keeping them?

George Bush?

M.Dancer · May 25, 2008

No indeed, there is not.
Once the old 9/11 is too old, what form will Rudy 9iu11ani's

That would be clever if it wasn't so unoriginal and sophomoric

August1991 · May 25, 2008

In my optimistic moments I recall what I heard a US oldtimer say within days of 9/11, and in so many words - 'we should just come home and stay here. We don't need the world'.

The problem there eyeball is that the world is too small a place now and has been at least since December 1941. The US can't come home. The American ideal of liberty is too omnipresent. Too many Americans (and Canadians, Europeans, Australians) travel about the world and act as they would at home.

They've had almost seven years, what's keeping them?

About 17 were arrested in Toronto in June 2007 with an amateur, half-baked schemes.

If Mohhamed Atta had parked his car illegally outside a strip joint, perhaps his scheme would have been considered outlandish too.

BTW, the Madrid bombing was in March 2004 and the London bombings were in july 2005. That's three years, not seven.

Edited May 25, 2008 by August1991

Remiel · May 25, 2008

...I do not think that another attack on the same scale as 9/11 would be as serious a shakeup as it was before.

Of course, while academics will be able to see through it this time, it would be dangerous to underestimate the shallowness of how people as a whole will see it, and what they will demand in response. I mean, in reality, 9/11 scale attacks do not pose any kind of existential threat. If they did, it would not be called " terrorism " , it would be called " war " .

the janitor · May 25, 2008

Make up your mind...."if" is not consistent with the first part of your post. It's like asking when it will happen in Canada and what will be the response, since clearly Canada has not erradicated Al Qaeda. Hell, it has its hands full with just Hell's Angels bikers.

Thank you for the lesson in english composition. Let me reciprocate with a spelling tip for you: "eradicate" does not have to Rs, "error" does, as in "America made an error in electing George W. Bush".

My substandard sentence construction aside, if you don't understand what I am saying, just read slower.

Edited May 25, 2008 by the janitor

bush_cheney2004 · May 25, 2008

Thank you for the lesson in english composition. Let me reciprocate with a spelling tip for you: "eradicate" does not have to Rs, "error" does, as in "America made an error in electing George W. Bush".

America can elect whomever it pleases, and there is nothing you can do about it.

My substandard sentence construction aside, if you don't understand what I am saying, just read slower.

OK....but I am always dumber after reading your posts.

Edited May 25, 2008 by bush_cheney2004

the janitor · May 25, 2008

Don't sound so longing.

I'm sorry if you don't like the "sound" of my posts. I'm just asking a question, not writing a moral thesis on the event. Another terrorist attack seems a probability if al Qaeda has the opportunity.

the janitor · May 25, 2008

A right-wing putsch, just like the last time.

It was hardly a right-wing putsch. I'm sure there were some card-carrying liberals killed on 9/11. The response to go to war was reasonable even if the planning and execution thereof was amiss.

Edited May 25, 2008 by the janitor

Kitchener · May 25, 2008

That would be clever if it wasn't so unoriginal and sophomoric

It's his conventional internet name now. The brilliantly clever bit was the allusion to aphasia and the prospect that he'd gradually become totally mute.

Ah, never mind. Undone by those sophomores and their continual references to aphasia.

Kitchener · May 25, 2008

Don't be so narcissistic, Kitchener. This isn't about us.

It's hard to see what point you could be making. Quite obviously it is "about" many people -- many of them Iraqis, plausibly, and many of them now dead. Yet among the people it's "about" are a cadre of rich and powerful Americans who have gotten much richer and much more powerful because of 9/11 and its aftermath.

If anything is clearly dismissible as Hollywood movie fantasizing, it's the thought that this is primarily about last-minute rescues and foiled plots.