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Newsweek recently sold, on an open market, for $1 (one dollar) US. The buyer had to assume the mag's liabilities. He probably overreacted making that deal.
We may have to some, and to others we most certainly did not, it is all how you think on the subject, or if you have had loved ones killed on that fateful day. Americans seem fit to over react to allmost anything, Does not take much, to get people in a tizzy even on thsi forum. This is like a trick question we may have over reacted, but in a sense, when you think of the scope of what happened that day, we can also say, no we did not, depends on who is answering the question.
Was it meant to terrorize. Yes. But was it an act of war by a specific country. No. In fact, off the 19 hijackers - many were from Saudi Arabia
Quite the fluke actually. Even Bin Laden stated what happened on 9/11 exceeded his wildest dreams. Folks today still are questioning how 3 buildings could have totally collapsed as they did, simply from planes running into them.
Should our CIA have been more alert than they were, preceding the attacks. Many of the hijackers had been in the US since 2000. Our government knew who Bin Laden was, well before 9/11. But most of the American
people did not.
Do we need to question our government's constant involvement in places we don't belong. Does are government need to stop propping up regimes when they suit us, and deliberately take them down when they don't.
US citizens have the right to go to war to protect ourselves. Does our government have a right to create
war, without our permission. No.
Is this war on terror our citizens fight, or something created by a government out of control. Ever since World War II ended, our government has chose to involve itself in conflicts without our permission. Profit and power for a select few. A burden to the rest of us.
"Whilst war is to depend on those whose ambition, whose revenge, whose avidity, or whose caprice may contradict the sentiment of the community, and yet be uncontrolled by it; whilst war is to be declared by those who are to spend the public money, not by those who are to pay it; by those who are to direct the public forces, not by those who are to support them; by those whose power is to be raised, not by those whose chains may be riveted the disease must continue to be hereditary like the government of which it is the offspring.
War should not only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits: but that each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
As the first step towards a cure, the government itself must be regenerated. Its will must be made subordinate to, or rather the same with, the will of the community. . ."
James Madison
A very wise man, indeed
It was an act of war by terrorists.
As for why 3 buildings collapsed, let's not get into that "government was behind it" nonsense, okay? They collapsed because fire weakened the structure.
Maybe you should have told that to Clinton when he ordered bombings in Iraq before Bush was even president.
Both left and right prior presidential administrations should have done a better job at preventing 9/11, IMO.
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