sledge wrote:Brian wrote:sledge wrote:I think 9/11 would be the most devastating attack ever on Amercian Homeland Soil . Co-ordinated Terrorist Attack in history of the world so far!
I don't know about that, Shimmy. It might
technically be the most devastating attack on "U.S." soil, since there wasn't a "United States" yet before we won the Revolutionary War, but I have my doubts about that. The British burned Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812.
I think 9/11 was certainly the most devastating
terrorist attack ever, but I think the British actually did a lot more damage.
Did the British bring down two big Towers to the ground and fly 2 large planes into them? and also another plane into the Pentagon and even try hitting the white house(which failed). The Whole world witness these arocities.
Well, are we talking about the biggest in terms of exposure, or the biggest in terms of the size of the assault? Look at it this way: The British had control of
all of Washington, D.C. If there had been a Pentagon at the time, it surely would've been razed. And the White House
was, in fact, razed, which the 9/11 terrorists didn't touch.
The fact that the 9/11 attack was the most spectacular (in terms of media exposure) in history is more a product of the media of the day than it is the ferocity of the attack (as awful as it was).
That's not at all to diminish the horror of that day. I just think there's a tendency to lose perspective. It's similar to when people name Hitler as the biggest monster in human history, but forget that in terms of sheer numbers of people killed, Stalin made Hitler look like a lightweight.