Originally Posted by
CessnaJock
With all due respect - and as I said above - having a few thousand people disappear in flight without a sound would stop people from flying entirely. And that would probably bring down the economy.
With all due respect, the consequences of attacking a few schools would pale in comparison to the fallout
from a nuclear attack upwind from a large population center. Even causing a nuclear power plant to get out of control would create a sterile zone that no one could enter for thousands of years. The death of a thousand school kids would be "child's play" in comparison.
One needs to understand the difference between the strategic goals and tactical goals of such an organization.
The tactical goals may fail yet still be a strategic success. And vice versa.
Also remember the goal of any war isn't to kill each and every member of the opposing side. It's to break their will and ability to fight. You can break a country long before you can exterminate every last occupant of it. The same goes with an organization or movement or religion, etc, ad nauseum. So killings true purpose must ultimately be measured against that yardstick - how much does that attack do damage to their ability/will to fight?