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Originally posted by juju
Very well-thought out idea, though. I'd love to hear the rest of them.
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You have missed the point. Most cited potential terrorist targets are tepid, sanitized, or often not extremely danagerous. For example, cited is Sarin or VX in the subways. Sounds disasterous. But is not all that danagerous. Dangerous ideas are simply avoided for obvious reasons. That was my point. There are far more dangerous targets that terrorists would seek - if they only had enough intelligence to find those targets.
Terrorists are not worth getting in a huff worrying over - as long as we don't make it easy for them and as long as we don't inspire intelligent people to be terrorists. Let them think bombing the Golden Gate Bridge or Sarin gas attack would be so destructive. In the meantime many really destructive ideas are not even told to the public.
The point: if terrorists were such a threat, then terrorists would have been doing far more damage and attacking more often. Provided is a temporary example of what terrorists would really do if they were such a threat. Demonstrated is that terrorists really are not the big threat so hyped by a certain American president - who even hypes fear about six mythical terrorists crossing from Canada to NY State. I am not about to provide a list of potential targets. I am demonstrating why terrorism is really only criminal activity - which is how we should view it.
Demonstrated is how one without fanatical objectives could easily identify truly destructive targets. But terrorists just are not that smart - as long as we don't encourage moderates - the smart people - to become terrorists. Want to see dangerous terrorism? What would recruit moderates faster than an American government occupation for years of an Islamic country. An American government trying to force American ideas down the throat of people who neither want them nor earned them. An American government stealing Arab oil.
We currently have so little to fear from terrorists. But we have so much to fear if they finally get smart. One example is enough to demonstrate the point. There is no reason to cite any more exmples and no reason to leave this example posted too long.