Reply #11: Taking a paragraph from another post at DU [View All]

[salvorhardin]

The chances that the purported Arab hijackers did it alone is infinitesimal to none. They just didn't have the mental, physical, or political capabilities to pull this off, as in disable US air defenses, fly planes accurately at unbelievably high speeds and make extremely complicated maneuvers.

Leaving aside the moronic phrase about disabling US air defenses, the bolded text is typical of what I have seen repeated here and elsewhere many times. It is a form of bigotry.

Also, I think the last sentence in my paragraph that greyl quoted is an important one.

We would all do well to remember that the brains of al-Qaida operatives are no smaller or less clever than the brains of most Americans -- and no less deadly when driven by religious fears and hatreds.