Responses to a few of you:
To: Rusty
Delving into terrorism will not stop it. We know the cause ... if you or I were forced by circumstance to live in those countries under those circumstances likely we too would be carrying an AK47.
We know how to stop it ... (1) stop meddling in their countries in a manner we wouldn't wish to have them meddle in ours? How quickly we forget that we, US and British, overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran because it was threatening to take control of Iran's oil fields away from US and British oil firms. A case of remarkably self-serving and convenient meory. But certainly all of this is not our meddling so (2) terrorism costs money ... lots of it. So far we have done little or nothing to cut off terrorism's oxygen supply.
Which leads to the question you should be asking and that is "Why are we doing almost nothing to actually fight terrorism?"
Why is part of Pakistan off-limits?
Why did we let Osama bin Laden slip away by using totally unreliable people to try to take Tora Bora?
Why is Al Qaida not classified under the RICO act, Racketeering, Influenced, and Corrupt Organizations as organized crime as is the mafia?
Why is it that terrorism financiers bank accounts and financing have not been closed down?
and the list is endless.
When you have the courage to answer the "Why" then you will know that it is almost irrelevant. No one really cares that once in 5 years an incident occured that killed fewer people than alcohol on the highways in one year. It was political fodder used to gain political advantages. And anyone that thinks anything is "actually" being done is a fool.
Anyone with an IQ over room temperature can hijaack an airplane anytime they want. If airplanes are not being hijaacked it is because no one chooses to do so ... not because we are more secure.
