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Nighthawk117 on 07 August 2018
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Qwark said:
Nighthawk117 said:

Two points:

1. Have any terrorists hijacked airplanes and flown them into buildings of any of those other 7 closest countries?

2. If ever a terrorist group got their hands on a WMD - i.e. a stash of nerve gas, or bio weapon, or some plutonium and made a dirty bomb,would they be more likely to set it off in one of those 7 countries or in the USA?  To a terrorist, what's a more inviting target? NYC or Beijing? Washington DC or Riyadh?

I don't think NYC is more inviting than say London or Paris. Besides you can spend billions of dollars on your defense and you still can't stop 3 planes crashing in your buildings. As long as civillians are on board. 

Except now those civilians will fight back with everything at their disposal - just like the passengers on United 93 did.  Prior to 9/11 the conventional wisdom held that passengers and crew should cooperate with the hijackers - and they would end up alive when the hijacking ended.  9/11 changed the game - no longer will any passengers and crew trust the hijackers to let them go alive.  From that point on - all hijacked passengers/crew must assume the worst case that the hijackers are on a suicide mission.  No more cooperating with those assholes.