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"Ever wonder why extremists haven't bombed the Cook Islands" It's nice to be a country like the Cook Islands. You're surrounded by a vast ocean that makes it v
by MichaelApproved 14y ago
"Ever wonder why extremists haven't bombed the Cook Islands"
It's nice to be a country like the Cook Islands. You're surrounded by a vast ocean that makes it very difficult to attack. Your interests are also protected other, larger nations, so you don't have to do any "dirty work" to protect them.
You also don't have to spend tons of money on a military and can rely on treaties with other countries to provide your defense.
- markdown 14y agoYou know that before any attack whatsoever, there has to be a motive, right? South Africa meets your definition of a targetable country. Why isn't it attacked by terrorists?
- MichaelApproved 14y agoThis is going off track. My original argument is: 1) The US is a target. 2) The reason it's a target is not what I'm debating. 3) Terrorists are not having trouble attacking the US because they are dumb, as the author stated. 4) Terrorists are experimenting with different ways to attack the US and are evolving. 5) The author of the article is mistaking these experiments with stupidity. 6) The ocean is an obstacle that won't protect the US forever.
- ptaipale 14y agoSouth Africa is inherently so violent that terrorism doesn't make much difference (though there is some terrorism, at least bombings by white supremacists 10 years ago or so, and some activity against Israel.)