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>>>>>We also need to remember that the Towers were a global attack as more than 90 countries lost people in the attack, excluding the hijackers; while the Pentagon was an attack on America only.
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>>>>That is true as far as is goes but IMO the World Trade Center was a direct attack on American capitalism. At the time I wondered why they didn't hit the Statue of Liberty instead. It wasn't liberty they were attacking. It was capitalism and western values.
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>>>>I am basically a pacifist but some days I wish we would drop some big ones on the Middle East and leave nothing behind but sand.
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>>>and I'm a firm believer that we should 'build a wall' around the Middle East and let them figure it out and then go talk to them in about 100 years.
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>>How you gonna get the oil out ?
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>Not my oil. We can either learn to make do with what we've got or (and here's a radical thought) we can get off the oil teat and actually start doing some serious work on other energy sources.

I'm all for that. But it won't happen any time soon - and OPEC accounts for about 40% of current world oil production.....