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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (558)	9/12/2001 2:40:19 PM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (6) of 27666

I know I am coming in on the middle of this conversation. I apologize. I will catch up with the reading of previous posts when I get the time. I just have a few thoughts to share with all of you. 1. Where was American Intelligence (CIA and FBI) in proactively discovering this well-coordinated plan of attack? This involved more than a handful of people and quite possibly more than one organization. How could such a secret of such magnitude be kept? 2. While I do understand the culprits are the terrorist, I think there are many things more "ordinary" people do help provide for the possibility of terrorist attacks, and in an unwitting way, facilitate their success. How can two terrorists with just knives in their hands be able to force the pilot and his crew to give up control of the plane? A plane loaded with people. The pilot has the ultimately responsible for the lives on his plane and the livelihood of those underneath his plane as it flies through the air. What was the pilot thinking? Was fear motivating the pilot to think of saving his own butt? Apparently this strategy did not work. His permissive inaction lead to the death of everyone aboard including that pilot and thousands of people in the building the plane hit. Not a good legacy to leave his children. A legacy that I am sure will live on hundreds of years in the history books and the future memories of his family. I think we need to band together and think selflessly in order to fight terrorist threats. But I do not think many are capable of such enlightened thinking. I do think we as a population take much for granted. IMO this is a mindset that leads to misfortune. 3. Watching this on TV the collapse of the WTC towers for the 400th or more time, a thought occurred to me. I remember Saddam promising revenge for what the Gulf war did to his country. Something told me that he would deliver on it, one way or another, directly or indirectly. People like him and this Bin Laden character are very dangerous and powerful people as they operate covertly with others who are on a suicide mission in their life. At one time, we had the ability to detain Saddam. Doesn't this latest event make you feel that the complacency was ill-advised? Perhaps even downright stupid? There was nothing to keep us from detaining Saddam for handling by the UN which may involve international court proceedings. This could of been a politically workable solution, besides a pragmatic one. I think our attention should be more on ourselves, as a country and as individuals that make up this world presence. We ultimately cannot control the actions of other individuals who can impact our lives. But we can control how we think of what happened, and what we can do to control how we relate to others. This includes protecting ourselves from such future misfortunes. We may see the terrorist as the "evil" ones. Now this may be true. But actually I think we are afraid to look into ourselves and see how our own behavior as an individual within this group has facilitated such atrocities. That is the ugly side of ourselves that many are unprepared to look at. I think this collective denial or what some would call complacency is what provides the clearing for terrorists to operate in. So it is easier to take that pain and anger and vent it outward toward some symbol of their misfortune, the terrorists. This just maintains that clearing for future terrorists to operate in. The problem will never be solved in this way. Just some thoughts in what is indeed this sad time in our lives. Bob Graham

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