Friday, September 11, 2009
In Memoriam
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About Me
- patchouli pundit
- Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- I was too young to be a "real" hippie, but like the art, the music, and...the patchouli. I'm all for peace, love, and freedom, as long as peace and love are gained through mutual respect and not through homogeneity, and freedom remains fundamental.
5 comments:
Sad day indeed, and one that has changed the world forever. It is so sad that these lunatics want to hate America and the Western World, 'my God is better than your God, so you must die'. Unfortunately, our politicians do not have the courage to fight these people with the force that they should. Some people say we should nuke parts of Afgahnistan, but I'm not so sure. However, two nukes brought Japan to its senses in 1945.
The difference, Madoc, is that in WWII we were fighting Japan as a nation. We are not fighting Afghanistan the nation; we are fighting elements within Afghanistan (and probably Bin Laden is in Pakistan at this point, anyway). I would not advocate nukes unless we knew for sure exactly where he is and were able to pinpoint precisely where to strike. Even then, I personally want him to die in such a way that I can see his remains and know that he is in fact dead.
I agree, but (there's always a 'but', isn't there?), in Germany, after the war, you could not find a single Nazi/Hitler supporter. In Japan, no one supported Hirohito after end of the war.
I'm not saying that the circumstances in Afghanistan are the same, but ....
I certainly don't condone mass extermination, but some of these Islamic Extremists are pushing their luck in my view. Time to make protecting the US (and the rest of the 'civilized world') from extremists manadatory in my view. President Obama (and his cohorts) would do well to heed that advice. You can never appease extremists.
I have always been puzzled by the way those towers collapsed; straight down.
I was trained in demolition when in in the army. If a building is severely damaged on one side it collapses sideways. If charges are laid all around the building and set off at the same instance the building will collapse into its own space. We were trained to do this after a building was damaged by an act of war or whatever so as not to cause damage to nearby buildings.
When the first tower collapsed I thought it was just a one in a thousand chance of it going down vertically, but when the second building did the same it I felt uneasy about that. Then I read later that a smaller tower nearby also collapsed the same way, but it hadn't been hit by a plane, and it had been evacuated earlier, I became a bit suspicious.
I also learnt the the twin towers had been built to withstand an impact by a plane anyway.
Perhaps I'm just being paranoid and thinking too much.
Keith: you might find this article helpful...
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