Terrorists are Really Stupid

The FBI has foiled a preliminary plan by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel that leads from New Jersey to New York City. It seems the goal was to flood the downtown area so a New Orleans style flood would occur, crippling the city's financial district. What these sandy bozos don't seem to understand is that flooding would not occur because the land is above the level of the Hudson River, as anyone can see simply by looking. Destroying the tunnel wouldn't cause water to flow into the city because the tunnel rises up to dry land. Water entering the tunnel space would only fill that space. It wouldn't rise above normal levels at all. It just goes to show how inept terrorists are.

The name does fit them well, though, because the only thing they really can generate is a level of fear. And, I don't think we're that afraid. New Yorkers and the military are way too pissed off to be scared and they haven't seriously threatened anyone else. I don't mean to trivialize the almost 3,000 deaths on September 11, 2001, but they couldn't even get that right. They destroyed buildings before the work day began (usually around 9am) so casualties were minimum. Out of a possible quarter million, less than 3,000 perished and that included the airplanes. They hit a Pentagon wall that had just been structurally reinforced allowing countless lives to be saved there. As we all know, the fourth plane was brought down by unarmed civilians. And maybe what is even more telling, they haven't done jack since. A train bombing in Madrid, a few backpack bombs in London, have we stopped our lives? Hell no! 9/11 was shocking but it didn't debilitate us at all. In fact, all they did was "awake the sleeping giant." The toll it took on those families that lost loved ones was incalculable, but the toll it took on our country, minimal at best. Our airlines are recovering now, our stock market is still stable five years later. Our own government has done way more to pester us than these fleas. An annoying bug, these terrorists are. So we'll swat a few flies now and then. The can of Raid is ready.

For the millions of martyrs they claim are willing to die for their cause reality doesn't seem to show quite that many. They could really be effective if...well I've got a thousand ideas, but they might read this and I don't want to give them any good ones. Lord knows they don't have any clue how to really hurt us. Let's just say the Second Amendment is our friend as much as the First if they are ever dumb enough to figure it out.