Reply #53: I agree to a large extent. I definitely see both sides, though. [View All]

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There are, I'm sure, more insurgents willing to fight against us because of our violent policies. I think the majority of them will be carried out against Americans and American interests in the middle east for a few reasons.

(1) They want to protect their home terrorities. If the French, Chinese, or the Eskimos of Greenland invaded the United States that VAST majority of us would be fighting them here to get them to leave. Only a few of us would be interested in flying overseas and detonating ourselves to take out a few non-combatant Greenlanders or Chinese.

(2) Our government has cried wolf so much that we just don't believe them anymore. We all know that the Miami Seven are harmless kooks that were entrapped. We all know that the fizzing Pepsi can in the NY subway wasn't a bomb. Their terror alerts are a cross between hysteria and political opportunism.

HOWEVER, I do think that they are probably overreacting to a thread of truth. For example, two men were in the early stages of plotting or, even discussing that they would like to carry out such an attack using Gatorade, and they intercepted them. Now the GVTs are going to be in paranoia land and we'll never be able to carry Gatorade or any other green liquid on a flight.

I agree with the poster who said that there should be a separate flight for luggage, no carryons. It's what it's going to come to anyway. This time its Gatorade. Next time it will be feminine hygiene products. After that it will be vitamins. It will never end.

I also think they might be freaked out because most terror threats are bogus opportunism, and this one has a basis in reality.

Just my dime. (inflation and all that)