dagblog - Comments for "September 12th"

King Solomon?

David Seaton — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:48:38 +0000

In reply to How can it be inappropriate

King Solomon?

Not Wilde, La Rochefoucauld.

David Seaton — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:47:56 +0000

In reply to You don't have to ascribe

Not Wilde, La Rochefoucauld.

No, like crocodile tears.

Donal — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:27:21 +0000

In reply to Like our professed regrets in

No, like crocodile tears.

How can it be inappropriate

Red Planet — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:31:36 +0000

In reply to September 12th

How can it be inappropriate to set one day aside, in America, in remembrance of 9/11?

Provided we also set aside the rest of the year to fight against the ways in which 9/11 was, and still is, being used to destroy America from within.

Like our professed regrets in

jollyroger — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:36:50 +0000

In reply to Crocodile tears.

Like our professed regrets in re : Chinese embassy bombed in Yugoslavia?

Crocodile tears.

Donal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:17:44 +0000

In reply to You don't have to ascribe

Crocodile tears.

You don't have to ascribe

jollyroger — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:55:47 +0000

In reply to I think bin Laden's

You don't have to ascribe humanitarism. He got shit from co-Islamists for the high toll of "innocents" as it was.

He himself, in one of his tapes, referenced regret for the deaths, and specifically declared the destruction of the towers as his objective.

Possibly just p.r. but then, we invented the concept of "collateral damage", did we not, for PR purposes?

Recall the wisdom of Wilde:" Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue..."

Sure, but how many

jollyroger — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:53:10 +0000

In reply to Assuming that the "workday"

Sure, but how many more.people would have died if the strike were made at 1pm

The towers hold a lot more than 3000, and the peons are not on the upper floors (except for the restaurant workers, and even they were thinner at 8:30 than during the lunch shift)

When the issue is body count,

jollyroger — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:51:29 +0000

In reply to So he only targeted the

When the issue is body count, each body counts for one.

At a trial, I have no doubt that in the penalty phase, a good lawyer would introduce evidence (if such were available) that the crime was planned to minimize loss of life while inflicting collapse upon what 'sama has elsewhere declared to be his target--the towers.

The meme "they want to kill us-as many as possible, everywhere, all the time" is popular but contradicted by this example

And, as I said, Guiliani positively chortled that the timing was poorly done (because he, of course, promoted the meme).

I think bin Laden's

David Seaton — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:49:12 +0000

In reply to As a nerd I've never worked a

I think bin Laden's calculation was to strike as early in the day as possible for surprise and used the day's first planes... no humanitarianism involved, simply military calculation.