“[W]ithout America there would be no Israel.”
And trying to bring down an American jetliner by detonating your shoes was going to destroy America how?
I wish I had kept the link I had where someone was comparing the terrorist mentality to a dream world, wherein all you had to do was commit the acts of 9/11 and you automatically won (even if, in reality, you didn’t), which explained why there weren’t any follow-ons to 9/11 — in their minds, al-Qaeda had already won and America was already destroyed.
The problem with that is, if they really are living in a dream world, they probably won’t stop dreaming.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)