Garth
Forums like this and others have brought people around the world together.
Events like this can tear that apart. Seeing the Palestinians celebrating
in the streets over the events taking place in NYC and Washington DC I fear
will have dire consequences.
Bob Winters Vancouver, Washington
> From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:30:49 -0600
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Attacks on the U.S.
>
> Some on this List have called for cooler heads to prevail. I sympathize,
> but I sincerely doubt this will happen. Let's look at the numbers:
>
> Property damage is already in the billions of dollars.
> Early estimates are that as many as 35,000 lives have been lost. No
> estimate I've heard believes the number to be credibly less than 10,000.
> American Airlines alone has apparently lost three aircraft, each containing
> several hundred passengers. So far, five or six large aircraft and one
> smaller one appear to have been hijacked and used, successfully or
> unsuccessfully. That's over 1,000 innocent people just on the aircraft.
> Attacks took place against the U.S.'s chief symbol of capitalist
> infrastructure and military infrastructure as well as important symbols of
> the governmental infrastructure.
>
> This makes Pearl Harbor look puny in comparison. Unlike Pearl Harbor, most
> of the targets were innocent civilians going about their business. The
> loss of life and property dwarfs Pearl.
>
> There will be no appeasement, and the world has become a very different and
> much scarier place as of this day. Like sixty years ago, The Slumbering
> Giant has awakened. Even the perpetrators will come to regret this day and
> wish they could turn back the clock, as I suspect that they were more
> "successful" than they dreamed they would be. This will become their
> nightmare. Most of the terrorists in the world who are known to U.S.
> intelligence agencies can now probably measure their remaining lifespan in
> weeks, if not days, and few will shed tears for their "passing". Even the
> Afghanistanian Taleban and the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat have rushed to
> disavow these attacks, as have numerous known terrorist factions. Let's
> hope there will be no safe harbor again for terrorists.
>
> God help us all.
>
> Garth
>
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