How ape-sh*t will you be if another major attack happens as the CIA almost promises will?

[StageLeft]

CIA reports another major attack highly likely

 

[Tauren]

I won't. I believe we are doing everything possible right now. And we are getting help from a lot of other nations. Hopefully we can continue to thwart any more attempts.

 

[StageLeft]

But CIA says its gonna happen.

 

[bunker]

This is a free country. It's gonna happen again.
You can't exert the level of control needed over individuals in order to prevent this from happening again.

 

[GL]

It's a war. Casualties on both sides. However, this time around, the casualties will hit closer to home for Americans. I don't see this as a surprise at all but Americans still shouldn't live their lives in fear. If it's your time it's your time...nothing you can really do about it but fill in the gap until then with a well-fulfilled life.

 

[StageLeft]

Thats true, GL, but if/when it happens again I worry about the reaction of people across the world, especially down here. Although angry and pissed people have calmed down a bit. I think if it happens again everyone will go and buy a gun and buy a canoe, paddle across the ocean, and personally hunt for those responsible.

 

[Pocatello]

We can always count on the CIA to give us warning

 

[veryape]

The truth of the matter is that the American people are far to pre-occupied with being politically correct. Rather then realizing that at a time such as this, certain things they normally would consider to be morally wrong in other circumstances have to be applied for the betterment and safety of the country. Until we as a country and a majority come to this realization we are going to most certainly suffer numerous attacks, its inevitable it seems to me.

I consider myself to be a very liberal person in most instances, but in this situation there is no other way to deal with this problem but to deal with them as they have dealt with us. Maliciously and with no remorse.

We need to close our borders for at least the foreseable future and we need to keep profiling people who appear suspicious. Our biggest problem is our immigration laxness. Anyone can come here and stay here illigally and suffer virtually no consequences. That has to change. Many laws need to change.

Innocent Afghans will die and for that I feel sad,just like I feel sad for those in the towers. It is a part of war. We will not go in there and just rip the place apart. We are being as cautious and strategic about our targets as possible and I think we will win this war with as little civilian casualties as possible,if this war can even be considered one that can be won, at least in a conventional sense.

Anyhow, in response to your original question, if there is another major attack it will have no similarities to the last one and there will likely be no where near the amount of casualties. I also do not believe you can blame the government for this because it is the people of this country that are tying the governments hands right now. This is not the time to be morally correct.

John-Paul AKA, veryape.

 

[Pocatello]

if we are attacked a few more times by bin Laden's group or other Islamic radicals, our opinion toward Arabs living in America is going to be very unpleasant, even if it's not "PC"

 

[brxndxn]

veryape, I agree with everything you said except 'morally' correct.. I think now's not the time to be politically correct.

We need to rip the Taliban apart. Every last Taliban official needs to be dead because of their direct defiance.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

To answer ther question, i'd be major pissed but not suprised. Here's a thought. Just for the hell of it, sit down for a six-packs worth with a few guys and think of the havoc you could cause. Think the CIA's gonna know? FBI? Nope. Unless everybody has a microphone up their wazoo and the resourses exist to monitor them nobody's gonna know. Now the purpose of this exercise is to promote some critical thinking. If you can come up with some wacko idea, you bet the "pros"(read dirty SOB's) that were responsible for this disaster can do better. Seems the only way out of this is to go in for the long haul and get em wherever they are, because when they can do something devistating, count on it to happen. I think most Americans have no friggin idea how bad this is going to be for a while. Hope to God I'm wrong, but I fear I'm not.

 

[ratkil]

Why would a terrorist act turn me into primate feces? I am confused......

 

[shifrbv]

I don't think additional attacks will start up until we have a cohesive plan from the Bush administration. Right now, we don't know what they're going to do. How far they'll actually go. Depending upon their action, that will probably determine what happens.

Despite what it seems, it doesn't appear to me that this was just a random act. It was very deliberate. Hit the center of capitalism (WTC) and hit the US military (Pentagon). It seems more like a challenge. And it doesn't make me afraid to go to the local mall or the grocerty store.

Besides, if you had just committed a crime and every intelligence law enforcement person in the country was on the lookout for you and anyone who fit the profile, would you jump right in and strike again? Probably not. Most criminals lay low for awhile then when things have calmed down, they come back out again. Element of surprise.

 

[gopunk]

I don't see this as a surprise at all but Americans still shouldn't live their lives in fear. If it's your time it's your time...nothing you can really do about it but fill in the gap until then with a well-fulfilled life.

true, and maybe we won't live in fear, but we will change our way of life. people base their actions, in part, on what they percieve the future to be. when their life expectancies are cut short, i'm willing to bet that they'll start to make decisions they wouldn't have normally.