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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 ?

I think modern drill bits can go sideways quite a long way.