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Old Dec 9th, 2004, 05:37 PM       
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Originally Posted by Vexation
You make a good point. But franchises never have as much power as the monolithic powers. It took alot of organization to launch the 9-11 attacks. A couple years of planning and such. A franchise terrorist cell does not have the connections, or the wide spread terror web. The franchise hits will be smaller, and isolated.
Point taken. But I think you hit the nail on the head-- it took two years to orchestrate the 9/11 attacks, and as numerous reports and at least two committees have revealed, a lot of what went down on 9/11 was preventable, and IMO, it was a lot like a lightning striking type of scenario (not that anyone here should get the blame for a murderous act that required sick imagination, but you get the point).

And I think you're right that the "franchise" hits will be smaller, but it'll all add up. In a way, it'll be more effective. There's only so much that I think registers with us as humans. A massive tragedy like 9/11 struck a chord all around the world. Smaller attacks, on the other hand, won't necessarily. A bombing in Istanbul, a murder in The Netherlands, a couple here, a couple there, doesn't ncessarily galvanize a response like a large scale attach will (and has).
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