re: #1077 b_sharp

The US is the largest, most powerful and influential country in the Western world. NYC is the financial capital, and the most influential city, in the US. The WTC had become the symbol of NYC.

They had no other choice. It was all about symbolism. Showing how easy it is to attack that symbol would paralyse the entire country.

Of course, it didn’t. The U.S. cannot so easily be paralyzed. Even if they were somehow able to hit us with a couple dozen nukes, the country would not be erased. Just enraged.