Do you think an attack like the twin towers will ever happen again in our life time?

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Watching remember me and world trade centre and it made me wonder would an attack like that ever happen again in our life time?

Im not naive enough to say will it ever happen again because it probably will. 100 years from now, 200 years from now, someone will orchestra another attack.

But do you think an attack like that could happen again in the next 50-70 years?

Yes, probably. Terrorism isn't exactly a new thing.

Yeah definitely, and it will inevitably involve people who spent their whole lives spouting anti-West shit, but strangely enough couldn't possibly live somewhere more amenable to their views.

There'll be lots of hand-wringing by our politicians. But rather than be angry and demand answers, the families of the bereaved will be pressured into coming out with all that "love conquers all" and "shoulder to shoulder" bollocks. Oh and don't forget the tea-lights. Nothing defeats terrorism like a tea-light!

And then it will happen again, and the whole thoughts-and-prayers performance gets repeated once more.

I actually find it quite absurd, and perhaps offensive to bring up a terrorist attack from 22 years ago as if nothing, actually much more horrific, has happened since.

It was an act of war. We - the planet - have sadly always been at war somewhere, and worse still the planet will always be at war. So yes, it will happen again, it has happened since and will continue to do so.

There will always be terrorist attacks.

9/11 stands out because of the number of people killed but also, without being too crass, it was visually dramatic and happened live on tv.

Hard to imagine it happening again but certainly no reason why it couldn’t.

Flying planes into tall buildings? unlikely but obviously terrorism is still a thing.

Have to agree with this.

Agree the downplaying of the 7 October attacks is quite scary. I don't think the true scale of it was reported properly in the UK media. Some of the attacks, which small children were in cases tied up and made to watch, are simply too horrific to type. Whichever side of the Israel-Hamas conflict you fall on, that has surely got to be recognised as another large, organised terror attack since 9/11.

I see we aren't addressing the elephant in the room

If Oct 7th had the same level of live footage beamed out across the world as 9/11 did, would people then finally realise the scale and barbarity of it?

I cannot believe it gets downplayed so much 😢

Yes. See 7 Oct OP. 1400 dead.
in fact, have look at Twitter for footage you can never unsee.

@Finlesswonder What elephant in the room do you think is being missed? Perhaps it’s just the order of the posts, but to me your last message seems to hint ominously towards an opinion which could be summarised as “terrorist attacks, mass rape and kidnapping children is sometimes ok as long the victims are only Jews”. I certainly hope that isn’t what you were hinting at though.

What's the 🐘 in the room?

Same here. I always thought it would never happen again but after the last 5 years that's no longer the case.

Also agree that terrorism is ongoing and large scale terrorist groups are still out there and still committing atrocities.

9/11 was shocking for me personally as I saw the second plane hit live and had friends in NY. That connection doesn't make it any more or less horrific than things that have happened since.

Terrorism doesn't have to look identical to be horrific. 9/11 was one large incident. Currently we have ongoing terrorism where barbaric things are happening EVERY DAY.

All terrorism is shocking horrific and unnecessary. It's still here. It just looks different. Don't be gaslighted into missing it.

FFS how the hell do you get to that from a thread on 9/11

To me the elephant in the room is that whether it's France, 9/11, the UK or Israel whatever the details the threat is coming from the same place and ideology, and the West should now be looking at taking collective action

But there have been lots of similar genocides since the holocaust. Cambodia - 3million dead; Bangladesh - 3million dead; Rwanda - 1million dead eg. And then look at things like the forced labour camps in Russia, China, etc the Uyghurs camps. The western world just doesn't care about them as they're not European

I see you answered.

The ideology is the 🐘 in the room, as in Islamic extremists. There are of course other terrorist organisations

Of course. Why wouldn’t it?

The western world sends aid. Saying it doesn't care is not true, the western world cannot stop or solve all these problems. If it gets involved it's wrong, if it doesn't get involved it's wrong.

I think the OP specifically meant she used to believe it wouldn’t happen again in the Western World, not that genocides and large scale wars haven’t happened in other places.

Do you think people in Cambodia cared about 9/11?

I assume there will be . If our government must back USA and Israel and go gung-ho into other territories, I think it's likely there will be repercussions. They'll affect us far more than those twats who agreed to do it, swanning past in their armoured cars. I despair.

Yes, its perfectly possible despite heightened security. The terrorists are there, the opportunities still exist for any major attack to happen, anywhere. It only takes on me extremist.

@marmaladeandpeanutbutter Backing Israel and other countries experiencing terrorist attacks is actually a pretty good self-defence strategy. Helping Israel defeat Hamas makes the world safer because they’d attack us eventually if they finished murdering all of the Jews. Be grateful it’s someone else’s problem right now, but be aware that eventually it would be everyone’s problem. Just like supporting Ukraine against Russia keeps us safer because otherwise we might end up fighting Russia much closer to home.