DBWI:What If,the Terrorists attacked New York City no Washington?.

As we all know,in 9/11 in the year of 2001 the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda attacked the USA.Terrorists they kidnapped four planes,and attacked the capital of USA,Washington.The Terrorist attacked and destroyed:Washington Monument,United States Capitol and The Pentagon.One of the planes it was overthrown by passengers and never it reached its destination.My Question is:What If The Terrorist they decided attack the New York City and never attacked Washington?What will be your Targets?The Statue of Liberty?The Empire State Building?World Trade Center?.
 
The Empire State Building is not that symbolic of Amerian power anymore, AND taking it out would entail the deaths of many, many civilians(as opposed to DC, where they were rationalized as collateral for military targets). However callous Al Qaeda may be of human life in third-world backwaters, murdering thousands of people in a city that is already the center of the world's attention would be a major MAJOR public-relations eff-up.

Same objection applies to the WTC. I actually don't think there are many targets in New York that would qualify as militarily or politically significant(at least not on a global scale), to a degree sufficient for tempering the international outrage.

I mean, come on. Thousands of innocent people murdered in the middle of the morning, live on worldwide TV? You'd have even uber-peacenik Tony Blair calling for the whole Muslim world to be bombed to hell.
 
The Empire State Building is not that symbolic of Amerian power anymore, AND taking it out would entail the deaths of many, many civilians(as opposed to DC, where they were rationalized as collateral for military targets). However callous Al Qaeda may be of human life in third-world backwaters, murdering thousands of people in a city that is already the center of the world's attention would be a major MAJOR public-relations eff-up.

Same objection applies to the WTC. I actually don't think there are many targets in New York that would qualify as militarily or politically significant(at least not on a global scale), to a degree sufficient for tempering the international outrage.

I mean, come on. Thousands of innocent people murdered in the middle of the morning, live on worldwide TV? You'd have even uber-peacenik Tony Blair calling for the whole Muslim world to be bombed to hell.

It would take a lot to bring down something the size of the ESB or the WTC... I don't know if a plane would do it. It would depend how big or how fast it was going.

I do object to the idea that the ESB isn't all that symbolic though. I think it projects American can-do spirit and the ideal of New York far more than those ugly shoe boxes on end downtown!

As for a internationally drawing symbol... there's the lovely large lady with a torch in the harbor.

OOC: I remember seeing one person obsessed with rebuilding the WTC as it was openly wishing that the ESB and the Statue of Liberty were destroyed instead. You know, as opposed to the attack being prevented all together.
 
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