It just occoured to me that there is another difference between Bin Laden and his Terrorist Cells and The Unibomber or McVeigh and Nicols. McVeigh was carrying out a war against the US Government and considered his innocent victims as Collateral Damage. He was not targeting those individuals but considered them expendable for his cause. His target was the federal offices in that building. The Unibomber was an Eco Terrorist who was fighting a war against specific interests and individuals who represented those interests. He was targating people who he felt were contributing to the destruction of the environment. Bin Laden and these Arab Terrorists that we are talking about now were not hitting these targets as much for their specific relevance to a cause. He has declared against AMERICA IN GENERAL His call to his people to "KILL ALL AMERICANS" is an attack on all of us. We, as American Citizens, are not collateral damage to him. WE ARE HIS TARGET.
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