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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Not to mention a remote location that is difficult for police, military, and medical personnel to access. Sadly, the only thing that says cowardice more than attacking unarmed civilians is attacking children.
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I agree, but at the risk of sounding cold, Lenin once said that the objective of terrorism was to terrorize, and in a lot of ways, this attack though small and simple could be just as effective as 9/11.
9/11 was a extremely complex operation that was probably hideously expensive and in the end was extremely costly as the people that pulled it off effectively stood up. At the end of the day, though it was a success on every major executable criteria it was a failure because it lead to pretty much the destruction of Al-Queda.
The success of 9/11 and the aftershocks were more fortunate for them then planned. They had no way of knowing that 9/11 would inadvertantly lead to the destruction of the American Economy.
But there was no real followup for 9/11 because they were being chased.
In this case, they may have caught somebody, but the person they caught is probably a foot soldier in a small cell, the trail will blow dry within a day or two, and I bet there will be a series of followup attacks by other cells.