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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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>>A big straw? ( cf "There will be Blood" - "I drink your milkshake")
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>What is that ? I found a UTube clip but......
Daniel Day Lewis movie about an early oil wildcatter. He is explaining to his son how to drill at an angle for somebody else's oil while they are in a soda shop and he takes his straw and puts it in his son's milkshake ...
Pretty good movie
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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