Can someone explain why the US taxpayers give Isreal $3.5+ billion each year?

[Fonz]

if it was just to scare, then their would be no reason for any other terror-attacks......It goes a lot deeper then just scaring us....They wanted to see what would happen to our economy....And future attacks will be based on how we re-acted......Scare is only part of it......if they hit us hard enough all across the country at the same time....Our economy will shut down possibly long enough for us to turn on each other---and that is their main goal......

Hmmmm......the US has made several blunders, but the worst one of them all is that they never did tend to view a DIRECT ECONMIC ATTACK as a matter of national security.

European nations understand this readily from past history.

The 9/11 was a DIRECT ECONOMIC ATTACK.

Make no mistake about it. Look what happened after 9/11.

The airlines went DOWN THE DRAIN.

Fonz

 

[spongebob]

Hmmmm......the US has made several blunders, but the worst one of them all is that they never did tend to view a DIRECT ECONMIC ATTACK as a matter of national security.

European nations understand this readily from past history.

The 9/11 was a DIRECT ECONOMIC ATTACK.

Make no mistake about it. Look what happened after 9/11.

The airlines went DOWN THE DRAIN.

Fonz

airliners were going down the drain before 9-11 fonz. the economy has had no long term detrimental effect from 9-11. i dont believe it was meant so much as an economic attack as it was to bring the issue right to americans front doorstep. before 9-11 how much did you hear amricans question our presence in the mid east. most people couldnt tell you who OBL was. now those intials are as identifiable as JFK. they knew they would get americans attention. it wasnt happening with previous attacks(kobar towers, the embassies in tanzania and kenya, uss cole). americans didnt understand that OBL had declared a jihad on american citizens, the only way was to hit the states.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Wrong captain. I know you are slow to pick up patterns so i will re-cap. If they were to attack an American base in Saudi (or even the mid-east) then that would be freedom fightinh. The goal of the plane tricks was to scare and that is all.

You made a dumb statement. Now you're backpedaling. On to another thread.

 

[spongebob]

You made a dumb statement. Now you're backpedaling. On to another thread.

yep!

 

[XBiker]

Hmmmm......the US has made several blunders, but the worst one of them all is that they never did tend to view a DIRECT ECONMIC ATTACK as a matter of national security.

European nations understand this readily from past history.

The 9/11 was a DIRECT ECONOMIC ATTACK.

Make no mistake about it. Look what happened after 9/11.

The airlines went DOWN THE DRAIN.

Fonz

I think it's well beyond an 'economic' attack. Their goal was to do what all terrorist aim to do - instill fear in to people.

I for one abstained from a large gathering in my town, that was just 5 weeks after 9/11. Why? I did not feel comfortable standing in the middle of a large crowd (this even draws 100,000 + every year) with the thought that something might happen.

Did the attack have economic reprocussions? Absolutely. It damn near bankrupted the airlines, hurt an already weak stock market, and affected tourism all around the globe.