The Onion asks: how should we respond?

Post #10,812 by marlowe 9/28/01 1:35:31 PM Reply	The Onion asks: how should we respond? [link\|http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/point_americas_response.html\|Blind rage or measured response?] I vote for cool, calm, levelheaded armageddon. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html]
Post #10,833 by wharris2 9/28/01 5:27:45 PM Reply	Another take on it (and it's even half serious): We must do something. For a start: we know the places where they rejoiced and danced in the streets in celebration of the falling of the towers. Those streets and all their buildings should become monuments: not one stone stands upon another. Level the rubble so that a troop of cavalry could ride across where they stood and not one horse stumble. Then sow salt on those grounds. They will be left as monuments, visible from the air, visible from space: monuments to dead Americans. It's not a very well organized [link\|http://www.jerrypournelle.com/war/whattodo.html#One\|page], but it is some interesting speculation about things to do. Who knows how empty the sky is In the place of a fallen tower. Who knows how quiet it is in the home Where a son has not returned. -- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
Post #10,857 by Ashton 9/28/01 9:17:45 PM 9/28/01 10:33:56 PM Reply	I think Pournelle's screed deserves other than Oh Pun So guess I'll link to it in the Terror column. He is , at very least - attempting to help create a 'place to hang' the diverse automatic responses; a place for sorting out: Whether to become next, rationally irrational or.. irrationally irrational ? A. (Edit - let's make that screed.. Edited by Missing User 70 Sept. 28, 2001, 10:33:56 PM EDT Expand All History

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