I'm starting to suspect that the terrorists themselves doubt they will get another chance of blowing up a place with real explosives, so they are slowly making our transportation systems as inefficient and crazy as possible by forcing them to adopt insane safety procedures.
I have to say, this has been my greatest fear for a very long time. That these terrorists are not the moronic self-parodies they appear to be, but are in fact extremely subtle geniuses. Think about it. With little more than some det cord, box cutters and easily persuaded young invincibles, al-Qaida accomplished the 2006 Military Commissions Act, got George Bush reelected, trapped America in two endless bankrupting wars, made airline travel an expensive nightmare of imbecility, and have put every American who gives two shits about politics at each other's throats, even the ones who agree with each other. If you really did want to destroy the United States, you couldn't do a much better job. Even nuclear saturation would give you something to rally around.
Remember folks, always say you meant to do that, especially the screw ups that work out in your favor.
Hah, I was thinking the same thing. Why do they keep going after planes? I mean, WTF is so important about planes? A single bomb destroying like a $20 M piece of junk and 200 people? Is it because hijacking a plane gives terrorists a feel of power?
Why not trains? Planes are deadlier than cruise missiles, I suppose. Trains have very little security.. A few men with guns can just waltz in and shoot everyone in a subway train. I'd suspect they have trouble finding people stupid enough to do that.
Terrorists are not idiots. Suicide bombers are, but not the masterminds behind them. I'm just wondering what they're thinking.
They look like they're winning. Somehow they tricked the USA to bankrupt itself by attacking a country unrelated to Al-Qaeda. And they didn't find any weapons either, making the whole thing pointless. Al-Qaeda is much stronger these days from USA's lack of diplomacy in the Middle East, and the USA is a hell lot weaker than it was before 2001.
Al-Qaeda loses one idiot and a few thousand in training and underwear gunpowder. America panics, hurts their foreign relations further from racial profiling, loses millions from tighter security. We couldn't bring bottled water in before this.. now what.. we can't wear underwear?
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