OT (or is it?): American Imperialism

[Renegade 13]

StrategiaInUltima said:
Terrorism in the US is now impossible. Al Qaeda is practically beheaded and is without a firm base of operations. The US's internal and external security is so tight, that a large terrorist attack is virtually impossible.

I'm sorry, but large scale terrorism is not impossible. Perhaps large scale Islamic terrorism is impossible, but if I, a Canadian citizen, went down to the US with the purpose of performing terrorist acts, I would have no trouble at all doing it. Why? Because I look like an American. No one could distinguish me from an American visually, so they wouldn't suspect me. How would I do my terrorist acts? Not in the way that the Islamic terrorists flew a plane into a building which was, to be honest, very inefficient with how they did it. Oh yeah, and if I was a terrorist, I can almost guarantee you that you would not catch me for a long time. You'll see why as I explain what a 'smart' terrorist would do:

What would my terrorist activities be?? First, I would travel to California in the summer. No, not for a vacation What would my terrorist tools be? One thing, a box of matches. I would go around to all the forests and start lighting fires. Soon, the entire state would be ablaze. What's that? That's not terrorism?? I beg to differ. I would cause massive destruction, and cost the US feds and state gov't's many millions to rebuild, and put out the fires. Call it economic terrorism.

Next, I would do something else, like blow a few bridges up. Major ones, and trust me, it wouldn't be hard. Build your own explosives, and down goes the bridge. Stop that after a few bridges. Can't let them see a pattern.

You see, there's many ways for large-scale terrorist attacks that don't require dying, or hijacking aircraft. All it takes is a few smart people to figure out a smart way to cause massive damage. There's also a good reason why the 9/11 terrorists chose to do what they did; they wanted to kill Americans, due to an overwhelming hatred. A smart terrorist wouldn't concentrate his efforts on killing people, he'd concentrate on killing the economy. And that my friends, would end up causing a lot more damage than a couple of collapsed buildings, and a few thousand people dead.

Scary isn't it what kind of terrorist ideas a 17 year old kid can come up with. Imagine if a serious terrorist thought of this, and actually intended to do it? What havoc could he cause?