On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
"James A. Donald"
All of the terrorists came from countries that were beneficiaries of an immense amount of US help. Saudi Arabia was certainly not under attack. If they were Palestinians, and they hit the Pentagon but not the two towers, then they would be defending themselves.
John Kelsey
I'm still trying to understand the moral theory on which you differentiate hitting the two towers from the Oklaholma City bombing.
The pentagon did not have a branch office in the two towers. BATF had an office in the Murrah building.
Bzzzt! Try again. There were a number of federales in the towers, INCLUDING atf, all the various branches of the armed services, and a large number of spook proxy points.
So they killed a whole bunch of people, most of whom had nothing to do with what they opposed, but surely including people who were doing business with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Was McViegh targeting people who do business with BATF?
Besides which the terrorists did not target them for doing business with Israel, but for "World Trade" - globalization and all that.
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