Fire In The Sky
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To clarify, by "Repeat of 9/11", I meant a major terrorist attack in the US. I did not mean specifically hijacked airplanes.
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Which is why, in terms of game theory, the terrorists now have the upper hand in their confrontation with the United States. The terrorists have "announced" that no rules whatsoever will be respected and that no one and nothing is outside their target list. And, at the same time, they delivered a hit that "confirmed" both the veracity of such a threat and their ability to carry it out.
The United States, therefore, is theoretically obligated to guard everything against everybody!
(Its response? Send the army thousands of miles away to finagle a regime change. Tsk tsk tsk.)
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