Reply #56: What that means is that you refuse to think the unthinkable. [View All]

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Because of the years I spent in service I know ways that I could bring the country to it knees for weeks. The entire economy would have to start up again. Fatalities would be in the hundreds of thousands. All it would take would be a lot of C-4, some other common stuff that I won't mention, 20 guys that spoke passable English, and about a year's time.

It has been done before to other countries by a different method, but it has worked each time. Casualties were fewer because the subject countries didn't have the levels of technology and interdependence that we do now.

So truly massive devastation is possible. We are fortunate that terrorists think in terms of symbolic targets, instead of effectiveness.