I just attended a seminar given my one of our faculty, who served on the 9/11 investigation panel. He described in detail how the Towers were built, as well as how and why they collapsed.
Seeing the pictures, the people, and hearing about what the conditions were like inside the buildings... I'm so angry right now. I'm told you can't let the terrorists win by getting angry and changing your life. Screw that. I'm angry. And my views have changed. And I'm not sorry about it. Of course peace is still my ideal, but if we have to use military violence to destroy the system that took out the Towers, then so be it, because I'm not aware of any other way to prevent them from doing more. (hunting down criminal terrorists is far different than a war for oil of course, which is another post for another time)
Seeing the pictures, the people, and hearing about what the conditions were like inside the buildings... I'm so angry right now. I'm told you can't let the terrorists win by getting angry and changing your life. Screw that. I'm angry. And my views have changed. And I'm not sorry about it. Of course peace is still my ideal, but if we have to use military violence to destroy the system that took out the Towers, then so be it, because I'm not aware of any other way to prevent them from doing more. (hunting down criminal terrorists is far different than a war for oil of course, which is another post for another time)
the another post thingy, but I can't help but think that the complexities of the
politics and history of the region should make us step back an think hard about
what in the larger sense needs to be done.
Btw. I thought I read in ?Science? that if the insulation in the towers would have been thicker that they wouldn't have collapsed at all. Did ihe talk about that any ?
[Edited on Feb 07, 2003]
that said that the towers wouldn't have collapsed this time if the insulating
was thicker. I believed that apart from all the heat from the fuel, the towers
readily withstood the impact. Anyway don't mean to nitpick over this.
*sigh*