Were they there for Decoration?? Maybe for a playground for the little kids of the neighborhood?? WTF Jihad?? please tell me your a just playing dumb, and you really do understand what an ICDM that is topped with a nuke is for. It certainly isn't for making mashed potatoes.
They were their because of concerns that the US was about to invade Cuba and, probably, to challenge the placing of US nuclear weapons in Italy and Turkey.
The USSR was, to some extent, able to check US power but that does not mean they were seeking to destroy the US. The Cuba missiles barely effected the strategic nuclear balance (US 5,000 to USSR 300). The "Evil Empire" threat was massively exaggerated, just as the threat form al Qaeda has been.
The threat to worry about is that posed by the existence "big dog" kick ass nuclear weapons anywhere.
Proof?? Collapsing?? Didn't FORD just post a 997 million dollar profit for the 3rd Quarter?? Hummm.....Yeah.....collapsing.......um.....No??
A curious, skeptical person might wonder
how Ford could have made such a profit in the current financial climate. It lost over $1bn on its core business of selling cars and trucks and is over a hundred billion debt. Its posted profit is entirely due to a a one-off financial boost from a debt restructuring. It certainly isn't evidence of economic recovery.
Maybe I am misunderstanding what this is saying. It seems to me like you blieve that the terrorists didn't exist and there was no crime, or something.
Despite its popularity here, lazy stereotyping has no place in critical thinking.
So, destroying 3 buildings, damaging a third, causing the deaths of 3,000 people, and causing the financial meltdown of 2001 was "GREATLY EXAGGERATED"??? If you believe that, please seek mental help.
There was a financial meltdown on the cards before the attacks.
The terror threat was exaggerated and hyped after 911, with, for example, rubbish claims that the US was riddled with sleeper cells waiting to be activated.
I might agree with that. I think it is also that we are USING the intelligence that we DO receive to PREVENT it. Instead of sitting back feeling invincible like we used to, we brought the war to THEM.
The people of Iraq and Afghanistan are "THEM"?
Good. No harm there. What is your point?? Who do you think is helping to arrange the meeting with their maker??? Yepo, good old USofA. Damn straight, and don't you ever forget that.
One doesn't need a global war to asssassinate a few hundred people.
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Sorry, enemy combatants, with no gevernment affiliation, that wear no offical uniform, do not faall under the Geneva Convention protection. They know damn well what they are there for. Me personally, they could have left them in the desert with their insides on the outside, but, that is another topic for a complete nother thread.
As with your Ford "fact" you need do some research before making wild claims that more than a small minority are "enemy combatants".
Did I say that?? Um...No. Nice strawman. Are we seeking out nothing BUT innocent people?? No. Stop with the stupidity. Just try for once to stop being the American hater that you cleaarly are, and listen for a minute.
Here are your words, in which the only discernible diference between "you" and "them" is that "you" have got your own airplanes with which to kill innocent civilians by the thousand:
You damn right. When you come over here, and ******* attack us, and kill INNOCENT people, you had BETTER damn well believe we will return the favor.
But, you see, were not hijacking planes like them. We are much better than that.
We did?? KSM?? What?? Money??? What does one have to do with the other?? You think this war is killing us?? Not hardly. The financial recession is from the housing bubble collapse, the idiots at banks writing loans to people who had no business owning a home, and nobody overseeing the two.
Sorry, that is the reason for the recession. BTW, 997 million dollar PROFIT for FMC this quarter.
See above about Ford's Depression profit and there were people overseeing housing bubble frauds but they, the regulators, collaborated in the fraud.
The Chinese and Japanese have been paying for the US resource wars. With the collapse of confidence in the US financial system and economy that is unlikely to continue for very long.
? Sheesh.