Al Qaeda Has 'Developed Liquid Explosives Which Blow Up When Dry' Prompting US Evacuation

[yellowcanine]

118. I have no real problem with just speculation but I do when it leads to statements like this:

"I just think we don't blow off terrorism the way some people on this board seem to because it doesn't fit their worldview." (#104 - Response to TM99)

Statements like that dismiss the views of people like me who are just trying to get people to see a little different perspective. Speaking for myself, I neither "blow off terrorism" nor do I have a worldview which denies its existence. I think we get more than a little carried away sometimes with yes - speculation about all of the terrible weapons the terrorists and other bogey men of the world are supposedly developing - don't forget it was nonexistent WMDs which got us mired in Iraq - and was invading Afghanistan within a month of 9/11 really the smart way to neutralize Osama bin Laden and Al Quaeda? I don't think so, and I really do suspect that Bush wanted that war also and did not actually try very hard if at all to get the Taliban to turn over Osama bin Laden to the U.S. And I am not even getting into the Patriot Act, which would not have passed without the endless buildup of fear perpetuated by the Bush administration. When we get breathless about the latest whatever we play into the fear exemplified by the term "war on terror." Warmongers like Bush are successful because we buy into their war on terror language. People forget that Osama and the hijackers were Saudi, not Afghans or Iraqis. But yet those are the two countries we invaded in response to 9-11. That doesn't really make any sense, no matter how one looks at it and that is a worldview problem - one created by fear.