I appreciate very much the fair and humble conversation about the disasters
in NY, DC, and PA.

The media coverage of this chain of events, while honestly grovelling for
facts like all of us are, seem to be making a lot of elliptical allegations
that the hijackers are "Arab" in origin.  I wonder if it is really the
case.  After all, the record of terrorism on US soil is dominated by acts
by U.S. citizens.  And if one can think for a moment that the definition of
a terrorist is distinct from ethnicity, then it would seem perfectly well
possible that these attackers would be US citizens.

I don't know whether we are being snow-jobbed by the media or if the
hijackers were in fact Middle-Easterners, but it certainly feels that a lot
of conclusions are being jumped to--and promises of retaliation are being
made that a politician cannot easily reneg on!  So many promises have been
made that backing-down will soon no longer be an option.

Are they going to carpet-bomb suburban New Jersey if the attackers are
citizens?  Who do you punish then?

Philip Taylor
AP Technologies
609-882-8355

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