Re: Seven years ago

On Sep 11, 2:51 pm, volkfolk <volkfo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My point was exactly this. Seven years ago American's got the wake up
call that we weren't immune to terrorism.

What, the first Trade Center bombing and Oklahoma City didn't count?
Oh.

Not really. They didn't have the visual and emotional impact that
watching two of the tallest buildings in the world have jet airliners
deliberately crashed into them and then watching several thousand
people die when those buildings collapsed

So no, the first WTC attack and Oklahoma City didn't "count"

I didn't know there was a criteria for no longer being immune to
terrorism beyond, well, being attacked by terrorists. Now I learn that
actually being attacked doesn't get the message across unless there's
a compelling video? Who knewI guess the dastardly clutches of MTV are
more encompassing than I had originally thought.

And those events did allow Bush and Co. to rape the constitution.

And this changed the world forever how?

Ok smart guy, you're right, Nothing changed

Ah, so the only choices are "it changed the world forever" and
"nothing changed"? Sorry, Scot, but I don't live in such black and
white world, so I don't do to well with absolutist silliness.

It seema to me that this was a pretty profound wake up call for America

Looks like America hit the snooze button, rolled over and went back to
sleep

Whatever.

Just because people are becoming complacent about 9/11 doesn't make
those events any less of a wake up call

Fine. That wasn't the issue, though. What others and myself have been
objecting to is the idea that that wake up call "changed the world
forever."

9/11 profoundly changed a lot of stuff that we all take for granted,
It seems to me that there has been a lot of gnashing of teeth here
over the two wars that are being fought right now because of the "War
on Terror", The Patriot Act, Domestic spying etc. Every single one of
the things that I mentioned are direct result of what happened on 9/11

This paragraph, which appears to be the "meat" of your argument, but
it is nothing more than a sterling example of rhetorical mush. The
second sentence doesn't follow from the first, and the third, while at
least following from the second, fails to address the initial idea
that the events of that day changed the world forever.

But go ahead, tell me how nothing changed on 9/11

Back to this splooge again, are we? I never said anthing about nothing
changing, I simply questioned, as did others, the notion that the
world changed forever.

And this changed the world forever how?

You really are smug ass,. aren't you?

Having just been through the repub convention and the fall out from
the Palin soap opera, I have certainly had my fill of vacuous
sloganeering and folks who can't walk a straight line rhetorically
through an argument, folks who, when challenged on such, offer little
more than inane non sequiturs and then ad hominem and stir. Oh, well,
guess I better get over myself.

Fred
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