Catty: Ohhh, vehicle traffic is suppressed alright. You can't get within a thousand hundred yards of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with so much as a moped. And that was, IIRC, post Oklahoma City.
Rob: You honestly think that they don't worry about that sort of thing? How much you want to bet that they don't watch shipping traffic like a hawk up and down the Potomac. And really, that's the only one they're gonna watch that closely because it is the closest body of water that links to the sea to the President. Besides, that's a threat that cannot be truly eliminated not matter how many guys with Geiger counters you use to sweep such a ship. We'll just have to hope and pray that some asshole in Pakistan doesn't slip Al Queada one of their nukes. (Otherwise, the most that they'll be able to come up will probably be a dirty bomb.)
Okay, let's talk about cold calculations here, people.
What is going to have a greater impact on a country such as ours?
A) Drop a burning airliner into the middle of a urban/suburban neighborhood and killing a hundred odd civilians (not including people on the plane).
B) Drop an airliner onto the White House and kill the President as well as God knows how many other government officials (not including people on the plane).
I know it's pretty callous of me, but you have to think about our priorities here. There's a reason why only the President rides around in a limousine that can take a hit from an anti-tank mine and suffer no casualties among the passengers. Trust me, if not for those No-Fly Zones, Al Queada would probably have as many of their agents as possible trying to fly everything they can get their mitts on into the White House. There's no bigger target than that.
Yes, it would be a terrible tragedy if some aircraft had to be shot down and it landed in a densely populated area. The loss of life would be traumatic, but it pales in comparison to the President, the VP, and possibly even the JCoS getting offed in the going. That kind of loss would paralyze our government for weeks, bare minimum. And don't you dare say anything along the lines of "The President is no better than any of us." That is horribly unpatriotic, and even if you're not a citizen of the US it is just plain WRONG.
Finally, do you know why we have the highest degrees of security than any other country? Anyone?
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It's because they're mainly gunning for us. They could have made the 9/11 attacks a worldwide event, targeting every single non-Islamic democracy they wanted to take out, but instead they only focused on the US. Hitting a bunch of other places like London, Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, and Sydney would have had a much larger and more far reaching affects than just hitting NY and DC... but it came straight from the horse's mouth that this was a 'Special Treat' just for us Americans. Above all others, they hate and despise us the most because we have had the biggest impact on the world.
They're mainly gunning for us, and anyone else they can nail is just gravy.
Rob: You honestly think that they don't worry about that sort of thing? How much you want to bet that they don't watch shipping traffic like a hawk up and down the Potomac. And really, that's the only one they're gonna watch that closely because it is the closest body of water that links to the sea to the President. Besides, that's a threat that cannot be truly eliminated not matter how many guys with Geiger counters you use to sweep such a ship. We'll just have to hope and pray that some asshole in Pakistan doesn't slip Al Queada one of their nukes. (Otherwise, the most that they'll be able to come up will probably be a dirty bomb.)
Okay, let's talk about cold calculations here, people.
What is going to have a greater impact on a country such as ours?
A) Drop a burning airliner into the middle of a urban/suburban neighborhood and killing a hundred odd civilians (not including people on the plane).
B) Drop an airliner onto the White House and kill the President as well as God knows how many other government officials (not including people on the plane).
I know it's pretty callous of me, but you have to think about our priorities here. There's a reason why only the President rides around in a limousine that can take a hit from an anti-tank mine and suffer no casualties among the passengers. Trust me, if not for those No-Fly Zones, Al Queada would probably have as many of their agents as possible trying to fly everything they can get their mitts on into the White House. There's no bigger target than that.
Yes, it would be a terrible tragedy if some aircraft had to be shot down and it landed in a densely populated area. The loss of life would be traumatic, but it pales in comparison to the President, the VP, and possibly even the JCoS getting offed in the going. That kind of loss would paralyze our government for weeks, bare minimum. And don't you dare say anything along the lines of "The President is no better than any of us." That is horribly unpatriotic, and even if you're not a citizen of the US it is just plain WRONG.
Finally, do you know why we have the highest degrees of security than any other country? Anyone?
...
It's because they're mainly gunning for us. They could have made the 9/11 attacks a worldwide event, targeting every single non-Islamic democracy they wanted to take out, but instead they only focused on the US. Hitting a bunch of other places like London, Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, and Sydney would have had a much larger and more far reaching affects than just hitting NY and DC... but it came straight from the horse's mouth that this was a 'Special Treat' just for us Americans. Above all others, they hate and despise us the most because we have had the biggest impact on the world.
They're mainly gunning for us, and anyone else they can nail is just gravy.