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> No seriously, can you explain!
> >
> > Ever heard about Ocums razor? ;)

Occams razor;
"Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity", meaning the most
likely explanation is usually the right one...
Occam's razor is a well known economical term for defence of nominalism
against realism.
If a bird walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it most likely is a duck!

My point is, is it really more likely that a government or some kind of a
secret service pulled this thing off?
The whole operation succeded only beause of it share brutal simplicity. I
think a government would have over-complicated it!
...and most likely tried to get away with it without losing their lives.

This doesn't mean that I disagree with you on your other points, I just
think we shalln't loose focus on what this really is about. Namely, stop
terrorist from terrorising the world. One fact stands undisputed; those
buildings really came down, and thousands of people really died in those
terrible moments... Thats the reallity. The world is not what it used to be,
not in the US nor Afganisthan.

Anyway, the Taliban has violated every basic human rights law in the book,
towards their own people and to the world. The Taliban was in the worlds/UN
focus long before Sep. 11th! The way they treat their women alone is reason
enough to take them out. I.e. if you're an old woman without family you are
left to starve to death in the streets, women are not aloud under any
circumstances to take a job, if a woman is raped, they stone her to death
because she's unpure, etc. etc. War is a brutal thing. We have for a very
long time, at least my generation (I'm 30) been sheltered from war and
violance, but we mustn't forget that the longest period of peace in history
(in the Western World that is) didn't actually came for free. It's not more
than 50-60 years ago 52 000 000 people lost their lives so that we can have
this chat without fear and with freedom of speech etc. In the last century
alone 86 000 000 Europeans (and some Americans) was killed because of war! I
think we need to wake up and smell the coffee. There really are evil people
out there, and people really do die, and somebody really has to stop it.

Sorry, got carried away here! ;)

Regards!


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