So it's a horrible attack but honestly, I think tagging the Pentagon is actually pretty impressive for those terrorist nutjobs.
I don't know if it says more about how much our country epically failed (by allowing a plane to nail the Pentagon) or how well-executed their plan was. Both. I guess.
All I know is aside from the tragedy itself, there were a lot of different kind of tragedies as a result... most notably ripping our bill of rights to shreds, particularly the 4th amendment.
The definition and goal of the "terrorism" was to scare us into abandoning our "freedoms", and to bleed us dry financially as we go chase every moozlim with an AK47 on middle east mountaintops.. Bin Ladin said as much.
To say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in Iraq, the destabilization of that region, our own dead and wounded soldiers, and the ridiculously bloated and overreaching security state which came about after people&politicians lost their minds post 9-11... Now of course, much of what I have said did not HAVE to be the course of events... but alas it was the resulting occurances.
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