You are hereSure, bombing the crap out of religious zealots is fun, but it might not be the best way to handle this.

Sure, bombing the crap out of religious zealots is fun, but it might not be the best way to handle this.


By thecroz - Posted on 14 September 2005

Carpet bombing the Middle East is, not surprisingly, the popular response to the recent attack, but in my opinion, it's not the best. Military retaliation is far too juvenile and easy—not to mention—expected.

No, we're bigger than that.

We need to show those power-hungry bastards that the attack didn't have the desired effect of deflating our economy. That it didn't even phase us. That we're so obscenely rich and powerful the WTC attack was merely a mosquito bite to us.

To vividly demonstrate that, we should blow up some of America's buildings ourselves!

Yeah, let's demolish Sears Tower! Then take out the Chrysler building! We should send American wrecking crews all over the country to destroy a skyscraper in every major city.

What better way to show those criminals that Capitalism really works? That, as a result, America is so filthy rich, we can afford to destroy our OWN stuff and STILL go on as if nothing had happened?

(Naturally, we'd also track down the culprits responsible for the attack and execute them all for killing hundreds of innocent people.) But by not going off all John Waynesque with cruise missles a-blazin', we effectively eliminate the symbolic effect of the attack!

We diminish it to the futile, desperate act of a pathetic group of extremist malcontents.

We would humiliate them on a global scale.

In addition, destroying our own buildings will probably cost us a lot less than a prolonged military operation in the long run (in both American lives and money).

I won't even go into the obvious side-benefit of reducing unemployment figures by putting people to work rebuilding them bigger and better!

Now, THAT'S the American way...

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