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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1390)	9/11/2001 3:00:41 PM
From: ItsAllCyclical	Respond to of 36161

Today's date = 911. Haven't heard that talked about in the news yet today. This was a terrorist attack against the US, yet the targets were largely financial. Maybe it's a total coincidence, but given that it was a financial attack it could not have been better timed with the markets at fresh lows and still in many ways fundamentally overvalued and ripe for panic selling purely on their own merits.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1390)	9/11/2001 3:32:28 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 36161

slider re, "We can no longer stand aside and wait untill evil decides to visit our shores; instead we must seek it out and destroy it pre-emptively; at the first sign of it rearing it's ugly head anywhere on the face of this earth. There can no longer be any safe haven for terrorists, or terrorism and no border, no government, nor any force, should stand in the way of the eradication of this evil.".... i have gone through a gamut of emotions, thoughts, ideas and prayers this morning, as we all have. i have remained silent as to the feelings in my heart, not wanting to speak too soon. feeling myself pulled in several directions by several truths, this morning has been unlike any i have ever experienced before. i am now settling most squarely upon the words you have chosen above as those that are closest to my heart, and most necessary for us to embrace as a guideline for how to proceed. we need now to go out and get the evil before it comes to us. best regards and god bless us all :) mark

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1390)	9/11/2001 3:40:51 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36161

Slider: on this issue we are at polar opposites. As long as the US seeks global domination, bullies weaker counties every day, and feels free to bomb anyone whenever our leaders feel like it, this problem will only escalate no matter what the response to this incident.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1390)	9/11/2001 8:07:11 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Respond to of 36161

It may be that part of the innocence is the idea that there has to be some enemy that we can punish for what happened. What if this is a small band of crazy people with a bag of money? What if there isn't anyone "to get"? Some early reports claimed that this had to be some sort of dazzlingly well-planned action, but it never looked that way to me. A small number of psychos could take advantage of lax security at Logan and Newark to hijack some planes. When they get near their targets, they remove the cockpit crew and crash the planes into the easy to spot targets they've chosen. (My first cognitive reaction to the video that I saw of second plane hitting the WTC, after recovering from the shock and horror, was that I thought that the plane wasn't being flown by a pilot.) They might well have gotten the plan from that Tom Clancy novel (let's hope none of them have been reading "The Sum of All Fears".) If these people were highly skilled, why didn't they circle out at sea so that both of the WTC crashes happened at the same time, and why didn't they hit much lower floors? Doing this would surely have caused a lot more fatalities. Might signal the end of some of the freedom and privacy that we have taken for granted, but we might not have anyplace to carpetbomb.