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Originally Posted by Sliver
Didn't see your edit in time to reply in my last post.
You say striking the WTC wasn't a strike against the government and its foreign policy, yet the response that has cost the Americans billions in wars and the rights Americans have given up with the Patriot Act have hurt the American way of life. I think they achieved their goals with this attack and it was an amazing ROI.
Also, they did go for government targets with the Pentagon strike and the Pennsylvania flight was assumed to be headed for the White House.
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They would have accomplished the same thing if they flew it into any government target instead as well. The striking of the WTC's was a symbolic strike at the financial power of the US, and it worked. Doesn't make it right, however. Those people they killed were innocent people (altough watching that 2010 documentary Inside Job has me starting to believe otherswise....KIDDING).
If they were really courageous, they would have tried to hit only government targets, since they are supposedly the enemy they have the most problem with.
My problem is why they need to bring innocent people with them to accomplish their own goals. It's incredibly selfish and pathetic. Flight 93 was a loss to the terrorists and should be a symbolic reminder to them that regular, innocent people do not tolerate ignorant actions reflecting a poorly-approached political agenda.
Again, if these terrorists want to gain some serious traction in the world of foreign policy and influence, they should be doing it through education and intellect - which, while longer-term, is much more effective in influencing Western powers than violence ever will.