OT: Counter-Terrorism is a Farce

[Yimboli]

do like the romans did - show up, kill all the men, enslave the women and children, and sow the fields with salt.

you didn't see anyone crashing planes into the parthenon did you???

[Phoenix-D]

Considering that strategy got the Romans overwhelemed with barbarian hordes..

[douglas]

Yimboli said:
do like the romans did - show up, kill all the men, enslave the women and children, and sow the fields with salt.

you didn't see anyone crashing planes into the parthenon did you???

No, you saw rebel slave armies rampaging around the countryside instead.

[AngleWyrm]

Blowing a hole in the pentagon was an excellent strategy -- how else would you get an entire nation so freaked out that they accept a Federal Police force (Homeland Security)? Oh and let's not forget the dark images of mail bombs full of anthrax, just before they trotted out to take over and 'set things right' for our own good. Funny, I never had a problem with anthrax or terrorist bombings before, until they came along to fix it.

BTW, has anyone noticed how much talk there is lately about 9/11/01 and terrorism, an event that took place five years ago? Odd...I wonder if it's the same people who contaminated the word 'conspire'.

[capnq]

AngleWyrm said: BTW, has anyone noticed how much talk there is lately about 9/11/01 and terrorism, an event that took place five years ago?

It's because the anniversary is approaching, and multiples of five and ten get extra attention.

Personally, I think the reason 9/11 conspiracy theories gain traction is because we Americans are so damned naive and ignorant of the outside world. We can't imagine why anyone would hate us enough to be willing to die to make a point, but we know our own leaders well enough to imagine how they could benefit from such an attack.

The media was massively "surprised" by 9/11, despite the fact that anti-terrorism experts had been predicting something of its scale for decades. (Hint: terrorism did not only start five years ago.)

The only thing I found surprising about 9/11 was that the perpetrators were organized enough to pull off taking four planes at once.

[AngleWyrm]

Here's an interesting little video on the Illuminati.

[ZeroAdunn]

You know, I hate to be the one to point this out, but has anyone thought that maybe the US government does konw where Bin Laden is, but has better reasons for not going and getting him besides the desire to continue the so called "War on Terror?"

[Randallw]

Renegade 13 said:
down. Fire off a SAM at the aircraft, it'll go down. Its not like it has any electronic countermeasures like modern fighters. No damage to anything except the plane and the people on it. Yes, the people on the plane will die. However, the response to the hijackings is what will ultimately stop these attacks.

I seem to recall an idea to fit passenger planes with countermeasures. I guess it wouldn't be military grade but if the terrorists get into the cockpit they'd have some sort of defence. For the record I agree with the idea of shooting down captured planes. It seems harsh, but once the terorists get the plan the passenegrs are going to die anyway.

Edit: incidentally the Romans did more than was just mentioned. Perhaps I take too much from Sword and Sandal epics but didn't they also crucify everyone and plant them along the highway, 1 every 100 mentres. I am reading an alt-hist novel at the moment where they crucify criminals along the Thames. After 2000 years they have mechanical crosses.

[dogscoff]

Every time some terrorist {does something}, you first figure out where the terrorists came from, their home cities. This may take a little bit, but once you figure it out, you destroy one of those cities. Absolutely wipe it off the surface of the Earth.

Yeah, because that policy has really worked for the Isrealis. They've been bulldozing entire towns in resonse to terrorist action for years, and that hasn't escalated the hatred and inspired more terrorists at all. No. Not at all. Not one.

(In case you missed it, that was sarcasm.)

[Raapys]

I think we should disband the entire western news network, that way we'd defeat the terrorists' greatest ally.