Know your enemy, and then what?

[Marc Piccioni]

Well said. Unfortuneately I have a bad feeling that the response is going to
be "Substantial". If anyone lives on the east or west coast take heed what
is happening in the naval dock yards.
-----Original Message-----
From: ECMnut at aol.com <ECMnut at aol.com>
To: gmecm at diy-efi.org <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Date: September 14, 2001 07:52 AM
Subject: Know your enemy, and then what?


>The recent disasters will take a long time to totally be realized.
>Having grown up in a US military family, I was saddened by the fact
>that our media has pretty much forgotten about the folks who
>let uncle sam tell them where (on earth) to live, eat and sh*t for years.
>You know, the people that will be called upon to avenge this madness..
>The Pentagon was not just a symbol, but also an office full of people.
>The military community is very much like that of police & fire.
>They are guilded together by the simple fact that the rest of
>society has NO CLUE what their life is like.
>It would be nice if we could drop a bomb that removes people
>based on their associates or their recent activity, but that won't happen.
> I think too much about this, but my government let me down over the past
>20-30 years.  Somehow, while we crowned ourselves as "the only
>word power", we ignored, and often contributed to, the suffering of large
>groups of people.  Our elected officials chose to finance bad
>regimes for the sake of oil & cash.  When the shit hits the fan,
>THEIR kids & spouses are grabbed & taken to safe
>"undisclosed locations", while my fellow citizens, who work in
>buildings like the World Trade Center, burn to death because
>their own government failed them miserably at some point.
>A government has no more important responsibility than to
>protect its people.  Notice, I didn't say avenge their death,
>although that sounds very good right now..
>Our estemmed elected officials will have our military brother & sisters
> drop bombs for a while and then tell us the problem is fixed.
>Fixed as with Sadam or Momar?  These folks just lowered their profile
>a bit and kept going.  They are still working against us, and now we've
>killed some of their friends & family just to strengthen their resolve..
>Our enemies don't live in a "safe" free country where everyone
>has a family and a job.  Many became orphans courtesy of the
>US or israel, so their life's purpose is fairly evident..
>Did we bomb the determination out of them?
>Did THEY bomb the determination out of us?.
>They aren't going to stand up & be counted.  They are survivors
>that have already lived through things that we can't imagine.
>We (most of us) choose life over death. Our adversary believes exactly
>the opposite, and he *WANTS TO DIE* making his mark on us!.
>He trains for years  just to have a single opportunity to do it...
>He is not gathered in a city block with his fellow terrorists waiting
>for our napalm or nuclear gift.  Actually, all the training grounds in
> <fill in the blank>istan are totally and completely deserted right now.
>The perps have gone underground again.
>Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan, Turkey, Oman, Yemen
>and Jordan all have government officials that will denounce
>the WTC disaster while their citizens dance in the streets and cheer.
>At what point in history did so many people start to hate us so deeply?
>Will you solve this dilema with more bombs & technology?
>One guy (and his buddies) used OUR OWN TECHNOLOGY like a
>surgeon to kick our asses a few days ago.   Sure, we'll vaporize him,
>but he is an icon to the above mentioned populations and there will be
>a thousand more stepping in to replace him.  Then we'll bomb again.
>Sorta like Israel and the Palestinians.  The more
>it escalates, the greater the number of people who lose a family
>member and want to exterminate the other side..
> It just goes on, and on, and on, exponentially.
> I wish to god we had the answer.
>We won't solve this with bigger bombs, or having
>our enemy over to the White House for dinner and a chat.
>Meanwhile, they are trying to board more of our planes
>posing as pilots and crew.  They are not done and
> niether are we.  This is a deadly chess game where
>one side doesn't follow any rules at all.
>Most of us will survive though.
>Mike V
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