TERRORISM, MADNESS, REALITY

You remember that day. September 11th. It is arguably the single largest event we have ever seen, or are ever likely to see. 2,992 dead, most actually dieing in real time before our eyes. Remember that day, not how you remember it but how it really was. Remember how everyone stood around, staring at the television, glancing at one another and saying small things. I remember when the first tower collapsed on television in the office, a co-worker came into the room, watched it fall, shook her head slowly and just walked out. We called our loved ones just to make sure, and thought about anyone we knew who lived in New York, or might live in New York, or might be on a plane. And we thought, as we watched the towers, and then the Pentagon, and then Pennsylvania, what's next? Chicago, LA? Home? We knew they were out there now; they can hit us anytime, anywhere, nowhere is safe. There are sleeper cells, like the Sept 11th one, waiting, waiting to hit us, to tear our buildings down and birth widows and orphans by the thousands, with germs and with gas and with atom bombs and fire. Everyone knows it; it's obvious, if they could do that, they can do anything. Nowhere is safe. We need protection or we shall surely be destroyed. But, where are they? Why haven’t we been hit again? What are they waiting for? The election? The Fourth of July? New Years? The conventions? It's been repeated endlessly, not if but when. Not if, but when. But, where are they? I would like to suggest that they are not there. I would like to suggest that there is no threat from terrorists in the United States. I don’t think they are there. If they are here, why haven’t they attacked? After Sept 11th we destroyed the Taliban. Justifiably. We gave the Northern Alliance control over Afghanistan, we put the Taliban in prisons and let there captors massacre them. We bombed the plains and the mountains, and we killed Taliban and we killed civilians, we destroyed Afghanistan as it was, and remember, it was a radical Islamic theocracy. We did just what we wanted and damn the politics. In America, nothing happened. No buildings fell, no one poisoned the water. There were no dirty bombs, there was no smallpox. No assassinations. The sleeper cells, not if but when, were silent. We sent troops to the Philippines to fight Islamic rebels. We did, it's true. We aided the Philippine Army in fighting them, and I didn’t hear about any prisoners going to Guantánamo or anywhere else. In America, nothing happened. We talked Pakistan into cracking down on their borders, and if not to go in and kill then at least to bottle up. A major blow to any Islamic terrorist group, Pakistan was in bed with the Taliban for years. Now they, at least publicly, are on our side. In America, nothing happened. The sleeper cells did not blow up any schools or use crop dusters to spray anthrax. Still, we all looked at each other and repeated, not if but when. And then, of course, Iraq. Try and look at the invasion of Iraq from the perspective of a radical Islamic militant. Regardless of your personal feelings. I think they would see it and say, See? They are invading and conquering an Islamic country. Everything we have been saying is true, they want to destroy us, convert us, debase our Prophet, and assimilate us. They are puppets of the Jews, they are the Great Satan. Again, from that point of view. And Iraq has gotten very very ugly. Thousands of Iraqi civilians dead at American hands, over a thousand Americans dead at Iraqi hands. Religious civil war. The prison torture. The pipeline attacks. Death and despair hold sway over Iraq like Saddam could only have dreamed of. And in America.... No dams exploded. No bridges collapsed. No chemical plants burned. No attacks. Why? If they were here, any part of that history is reason enough to strike, and to die in that attack. They hated us before we did any of that. After Afghanistan, after Iraq, how could it not drive a sleeper cell member mad? The radical Islamic militant cause is loosing this war, and has been for three years now. We don’t have any terrorists here. And we can know we do not because we know who does. Israel has a terrorist threat, busses and shopping malls exploding. Bali has a terrorist threat, over two hundred dead in a night club bombing. Russia has a terrorist threat, female suicide bombers in the subways, airliners exploding, and the school horror. And Iraq has a terrorist threat. The roadside bombs, the rocket attacks, the car bombs in crowded city streets and markets, killing scores of innocent Iraqi's in any attempt to hurt the occupation. The car bombs. Why haven’t there been any car bombings in America? Imagine what would happen in this country, if, all at one time, five car bombs exploded at five WalMarts, from Florida to Maine to Nevada. That’s assuming five suicide bombers, one or two support members, not more than eight people. Car bombs are easy, car bombs are cheap, and car bombs kill a lot of people. And it is horrible to even think, but the psychological impact of a car bomb, who doesn’t drive somewhere, or love someone who drives somewhere? What I think would happen is that this country would STOP. Kids would not be allowed to go to school, parents would not go to work, all shopping stops, all spending stops. The economy would lose billions. There would be calls for martial law, national ID cards, and of course the arguments against them, public discourse would strangle on its own terrified tongue. American life as we know it would jackknife into a spiral of suspicion, blame, and above all fear. I do not want this to happen. But.., why hasn’t it? What if they are not here? What if September 11th was the result of a string of bureaucratic blunders, buck passing, insanely inadequate airport security, and the incredible luck of eighteen wide eyed maniacs dreaming of their promised martyrdom? Our security knew about them. They were reported as taking flying lessons and wanting to skip the landing part. The FBI knew about them. The president had the warning, remember the bulletin "seeks to attack America"? No one in our government, no one, wanted to be the one to take the responsibility for doing something risky, something that might hurt their careers. Not Bush or Powell or Cheney or Rumsfeld or Rice or Ashcroft. Not Clinton or Gore or Albright. And the airlines. No one has thought to question the airlines on how they let FOUR planes be hijacked. Was there no plan, no practice? No mechanism that kicks in after one plane has been hijacked? Schools have fire drills. Watch money being delivered by an armored car. It's smart to prepare. It never occurred to them to block cockpit doors? To have some kind of defense for cockpit takeovers? It's not like it was a new idea. I can think of at least three examples off the top of my head in mass media of planes used as missiles, all pre 2000. There is a legal term you could use to describe the airlines on September 11th. Its accessories. And the terrorists themselves. 19 guys. 19. That's a really small number of guys. 80 people went to their deaths for David Koresh in Waco. Do we base our national policy on the Branch Davidian threat? 913 people committed suicide in Jonestown after killing a congressman. 10 dead and three wounded by the DC snipers. Society shrugs its shoulders, "they're nuts. You'll always have a nut somewhere." Is September 11th really so different? Could it really be a bunch of nuts and a bunch of tunnel eyed politicians and a bunch of incompetent airline policies? The terrorists are not here. If they were here, they would have attacked us by now. Not if, but when, is an irrational assumption. At best, this is a case of a national post traumatic stress. We react irrationally to the trauma even though the trauma is years past. At worst, we have been exploited. by J Mystery

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