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That was not their intention. No wonder you can't make send of it, because that wasn't the plot.

The idea was very simply, just to kill as many americans as possible, and try to disrupt our way of living. They hated us with a passion because of our morals and values. Now granted, that's not a very good reason to go out of your way to fly planes into 2 buildings, the Pentagon, and who knows where that 4th one was heading, but, to them, we were having way too much of an influence over their people. Women here are allowed to work, show their faces, walk in front of their husband, cheat on their husband, and everything else we take for granted. There you can't. It's like treason, and you'd be killed for doing such things.
I believe their thought was that if you take down the threat, their people will not see us as so powerful... they wont put us on a pedastol anymore. It showed them that America is just as vulnerable.

It's just like the KKK. For whatever reason, those members just don't like blacks. Black people aren't bad, and they're no different from white, but to members of the KKK, they're different and there's no way you're going to change their opinion. Now, I woudn't say KKK members are nutters, they are a lil messed up and probably had a childhood where their elders were racist, but they are not crazy. The know exactly what's going on and what their doing.

So, basically, all of this blabbering I'm trying to say, I don't think the terrorists were crazy for doing what they did, because as much as I don't agree with it, it WAS and still is their beliefs that americans are horiible people and killing them is good. It's just what they've been taught and that doesn't make them nutters. (Although you do have to wonder what made them think that way about us)

And I think if you want to compare the Titanic to something else that's happened in history, it's naive to only compare it to 9/11. Pearl Harbor, Cival War, WW1, WW2, Vietnam War, assassination of JKF.... there's soo many more that ALL shook up the world. That's all I'm trying to get at here. We shouldn't just compare it to 9/11... it should be compared to other things too.