RE: Off topic - Planes crash into world trade centers

[Chuck Lundgren <lundgren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9/11/2001 11:01 AM -0500, you wrote:
>There were reports that Usama bin Ladin made threats roughly three weeks ago
>to attack the U.S. on an unprecendented scale (words to that effect), and it
>seem he's done just that.  What possible good can this do to the political
>groups behind it?  What can it do for his cause, whatever it may be?  This
>made damned sure that world sentiment is solidly against them, while at the
>same time it has given the U.S. all but carte blanche to do to bin Ladin
>whatever they deem necessary.  I think that at this point, the U.S. would
>probably be able to employ tactical nuclear weapons without fear of serious
>international condemnation.

Please don't spread this toxic hateful nonsense. Tactical nuclear weapons?
What will that solve? What will it prove? We're the only nation on earth to
use nuclear weapons in war, and it didn't deter THIS attack, so what will
using them AGAIN do?

  ... Chuck