# 9/11: How We Shouldn't Have Responded **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476 "2011-09-07T05:45:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/41 "2011-09-07T19:16:20Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > We should have nuked every other country in the world. There are muslim sects living in London too. That can not be allowed. We could have solved the problem once and for all. They have them in DC, too! We should nuke them first though. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/42 "2011-09-07T19:20:28Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Can_ a stealth bomber be launched from a carrier, as the author suggests? I doubt they would even if you could. The B-2 has to be kept in controlled environment hangers; I imagine they would have a hell of a time keeping them in shape on the ocean. IIRC they fly most mission in the Mid East from Missouri but we have bases for them in the UK and Guam. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/43 "2011-09-07T19:48:23Z")
That is truely pit-worthy. Hard to think of a worse response to terrorism than the genocide being proposed there. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/44 "2011-09-07T19:51:40Z")
Tom Clancy, he ain’t. Tom Antsy-in-the-Pantsy, at best. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/45 "2011-09-07T20:14:19Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Yeah, but in that alternate history we wouldn’t have NAMBY-PAMBY LIBERAL WIMPS telling us not to build AWESOME NUCLEAR DRONES. So military technology would naturally have moved orders of magnitude faster. They would probably have actually built [Project Pluto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto). Nuclear armed drones that are supersonic flying nuclear reactors and spew fallout as they fly? Sounds like something this author would orgasm over. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/46 "2011-09-07T20:20:23Z")
That project sounds like, if I may be so bold, 31 flavors of awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/47 "2011-09-07T20:40:12Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > That project sounds like, if I may be so bold, 31 flavors of awesome. Sure. Yes, it’s lunatic idea; but it’s lunatic in a damn-the-consequences mad-science way you seldom get to see in the real world. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/48 "2011-09-07T20:52:35Z")
What the fuck kind of drugs is this guy on? If he believes any of this crap, and given the website I have no reason to doubt this was purely objective fantasy, then his kind is more dangerous to the world than a hundred Bin Laden. Too bad there are probably people who would cheer such a world where the Western worldview, specifically the renegade conservative agenda, is maintained by the threat of nuclea annhilation. Even though its fiction, it makes me glad that other countries like India or Iran or China either have the bomb or is fairly close to producing one. Such a world as in the author’s fantasy should never come to pass I only have one question, why did he have Muslims destroy the Nike of Samothrace for offensiveness? Do Muslims really have a problem with that statue? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/49 "2011-09-07T21:03:38Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > Someone who emphasizes profitable pandering to a market demographic above good taste. > . Hmm…Guess you’re right… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/50 "2011-09-07T21:57:11Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I only have one question, why did he have Muslims destroy the Nike of Samothrace for offensiveness? Do Muslims really have a problem with that statue? All that is not Islam must be assimilated. Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. Resistance is futile. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/51 "2011-09-07T22:08:36Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I only have one question, why did he have Muslims destroy the Nike of Samothrace for offensiveness? “Just Do It.” ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/52 "2011-09-07T22:33:21Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > It sounds like some of the military sci-fi that comes out of Baen Books these days. To be fair even Tom Kratman would probably be forced to roll his eyes at this nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/53 "2011-09-07T23:29:56Z")
On the bright side, every wad of semen rubbed out by the mouth-breathers who squealed in ecstasy over that crap represents an offspring that will not come along to fuck up the country and the world even more… ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/54 "2011-09-08T00:33:09Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I only have one question, why did he have Muslims destroy the Nike of Samothrace for offensiveness? Do Muslims really have a problem with that statue? It was either that or Mona Lisa being gang raped. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/55 "2011-09-08T01:07:55Z")
The man is a published author and has got mostly positive reviews apparently: [http://www.amazon.com/Sparrowhawk-Book-One-Jack-Frake/dp/1931561214/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315443989&sr=8-1](http://www.amazon.com/Sparrowhawk-Book-One-Jack-Frake/dp/1931561214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315443989&sr=8-1) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/56 "2011-09-08T01:13:27Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > The man is a published author and has got mostly positive reviews apparently: [http://www.amazon.com/Sparrowhawk-Book-One-Jack-Frake/dp/1931561214/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315443989&sr=8-1](http://www.amazon.com/Sparrowhawk-Book-One-Jack-Frake/dp/1931561214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315443989&sr=8-1) That doesn’t mean much; these right wing type often have their unread books bought in bulk by the Republicans or other right wing groups to make them look popular. And it’s easy enough for anyone with an agenda to flood a public review site with positive or negative reviews. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/57 "2011-09-08T01:15:30Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > The man is a published author and has got mostly positive reviews apparently: [http://www.amazon.com/Sparrowhawk-Book-One-Jack-Frake/dp/1931561214/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315443989&sr=8-1](http://www.amazon.com/Sparrowhawk-Book-One-Jack-Frake/dp/1931561214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315443989&sr=8-1) So was [Adolf Hitler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/58 "2011-09-08T01:24:41Z")
I’m tempted to post a response to the linked article: “It’s bleeding heart liberals like you that are ruining this once-great country. Those islamofascist terrorists don’t deserve an easy death in a nuclear explosion. How are they going to feel our justice when they die instantly? We should kill them with biological weapons or poisonous gas - that way they know they’re dying.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/59 "2011-09-08T01:31:07Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m tempted to post a response to the linked article: > > “It’s bleeding heart liberals like you that are ruining this once-great country. Those islamofascist terrorists don’t deserve an easy death in a nuclear explosion. How are they going to feel our justice when they die instantly? We should kill them with biological weapons or poisonous gas - that way they know they’re dying.” I’m curious how many cheers of approval you’d get. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476/60 "2011-09-08T02:47:16Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I only have one question, why did he have Muslims destroy the Nike of Samothrace for offensiveness? Do Muslims really have a problem with that statue? Less tiring than destroying Rodin’s Thinker - the work’s already half done ! _badum tsh_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-how-we-shouldnt-have-responded/595476.md?page=4)