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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
On the Bin Laden video, one of the things that stood out the most, to me, was not one of the obvious things.
It was said that after the plane hit the Pentagon, "(the Americans) were terrified it was a coup." Do they really believe that? Do they think that "America will 'fall down'" because we are so unstable? I would be amazed if any rational America had this thought cross their mind.
We may have underestimated the terrorists, but it appears they also underestimate US. I think their mistake is the greater of the two.
The idea of disabling and demoralizing a nation by destroying it's capitol isn't that far fetched. I consider myself a "rational American" and do believe that if every inhabitant of our national capitol was slaughtered, then it would disable our war making ablitities for some time. I'm not that egocentric to believe that we are invulnerable.
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