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originally posted in:Secular Sevens
11/26/2013 11:03:21 AM
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Anti-American terrorists today are attention whores, and not real terrorists
Take 9/11 for example: they attacked the US by taking out a financial center and trying to take out the Pentagon and White House.
Those are moves to grab attention, and only served to piss us off and resulted in their homes in Afghanistan and other places in the Middle East being blown up and/or getting them killed.
If they were truly trying to terrorize us they would do attacks in towns across the country. Not just grandstanding for media attention.
I won't mention specific ways, hi NSA!, but if you want an idea, look up the book Dead or Alive by Grant Blackwood with Tom Clancy's name on it.
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Why scare the people and make the people force the politicians to vote when you can just scare the politicians
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You don't understand what terrorism actually is. Its using those tactics to influence political decision making. Scaring people isn't enough. You have to scare the right people in the right way, in order to control them politically.
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Because taking out our economy, the headquarters of our military, our leader, and our other leaders totally wouldn't scare us.
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3 RepliesBy their logic, big building = important. Although, most "terrorists" are not trying to terrorize us, but are retaliating to our presence in the Middle East. It's a vicious cycle.
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16 RepliesThe point of terrorism is the intention of fear. What you are saying is called an "act of war." Attacking specific locations with the intention of bringing down something that stands as a symbol, such as the Twin Towers, they strive to incite fear.
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No. They're still terrorists. 9/11 was designed as a ploy to entice a US invasion in a Muslim country. It's all apart of the wider "global jihad" movement, which al-Qaeda leads. [quote]If they were truly trying to terrorize us they would do attacks in towns across the country.[/quote]They actually try all the time. With their online magazine [i]Inspire[/i], al-Qaeda is actually pretty good at radicalizing individuals to take action under their ideology and guidance (and sometimes training, like Tamerlan Tsarnaev allegedly received in Dagestan). People are arrested all the time trying to either plot, coordinate, or execute terrorist attacks within the United States and it's not limited to one specific area. Looking at the Fort Hood shooting, the Boston Marathon bombings, the failed Times Square bombing, the failed Fort Dix plot, and the failed Bronx plot, we see that the plots vary in geographical location.
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Terrorism isnt really completely about killing people, or even making a statement(which it does wonderfully) its much more about ruining the economy. This does not garner much attention cause the effects are delayed, and people go back to watching their TV and checking their FB statuses.
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Against All Enemies was better and the scenario proposed in that book was way more realistic and frightening.
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That honestly made no sense.
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Bin Laden has a porno body.
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Wow, nine years here.
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This is baitz
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That's what terrorism is. Terrorism is about inflicting as much possible harm in a way that garners the most possible exposure. And do you really think 9/11 didn't terrify the USA? Do you really think it didn't terrify the [i]world[/i]?
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dude thats stupid
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3 RepliesYes because attacking towns cripples a country. Not attacking government facilities or military response buildings. Great logic OP.
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[quote]hi NSA![/quote] yo.
