re: #82 lawhawk

A terror attack involving a nuke - destroying a city - that’s a different question. It wouldn’t destroy the nation, the damage to the economy would be much more severe; a nuke to NYC or DC would be even more damaging than if one were to hit other cities (due to being a center of US and international finance, center of gov’t etc.) A nuke in DC could result in a decapitation of the US government if enough members of Congress were in town along with the Executive and Judiciary branches. Even then, it wouldn’t destroy the country - but it would probably result in the destruction of whatever country spawned/harbored/armed the group that carried out such attack.

Of course. Is someone advocating such a thing? Is anyone suggesting that our government is or should take such a prospect lightly? If so, I missed it.

But to say that we have survived 9/11 seems like a pretty reasonable observation. We have. It’s is a statement of fact.