Thread: Wikileaks vs US

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

meh.

It's a few weeks vs nine+ years. We've made no serious effort to capture him and reputedly squandered several opportunities to do so. Personally, I don't think capturing him is high priority (it may even be a bad idea to make a martyr out of him) but given all the talk that went into it, you would have expected it to have happened. I honestly doubt that we're even looking for him at this point.

The point is that Jullian Assange is potentially a bigger threat to the United States than someone that helped orchestrat the largest terrorist attack in its history. I think that that's a good point and worth a thanks.

Do you believe that cave dwellers caused 9/11? I bet you do.

Originally Posted by RealWorldDreamer

Do you believe that cave dwellers caused 9/11? I bet you do.

No, i think that imperialistic policies of the United States "caused" 9/11. If it hadn't been Islamic radicals (which we originally trained and equipped to fight the soviets in the 80s) it would have been Latin American socialists.

I think that the plan was developed and carried out by "cave dwellers" and that said "cave dwellers" may or may not have had active or passive assistance from various US intelligence agencies. I'm not really up on it and don't really care about the details of that particular event enough to do the research necessary to offer a definitive opinion on it. Neither way would surprise me though.

What is so incredibly sophisticated about hijacking a few planes with box-cutters and flying them into buildings that "cave dwellers" couldn't do it? Especially given that Bin Laden is from one of the richest families on the planet and probably received a phenomenal education, and the people that actually carried out the plan didn't live in caves. Not that living in caves has anything to do with intelligence or capability. So really, what is the point of this whole "cave dweller" argument?

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

No, i think that imperialistic policies of the United States "caused" 9/11. If it hadn't been Islamic radicals (which we originally trained and equipped to fight the soviets in the 80s) it would have been Latin American socialists.

I think that the plan was developed and carried out by "cave dwellers" and that said "cave dwellers" may or may not have had active or passive assistance from various US intelligence agencies. I'm not really up on it and don't really care about the details of that particular event enough to do the research necessary to offer a definitive opinion on it. Neither way would surprise me though.

What is so incredibly sophisticated about hijacking a few planes with box-cutters and flying them into buildings that "cave dwellers" couldn't do it? Especially given that Bin Laden is from one of the richest families on the planet and probably received a phenomenal education, and the people that actually carried out the plan didn't live in caves. Not that living in caves has anything to do with intelligence or capability. So really, what is the point of this whole "cave dweller" argument?

Did you know Bin Laden knew the Bush family and was a friend of theirs?

Bin Laden was trained by the CIA in the cold war to fight the russians.