I'm not talking about just the selection of the targets, but the way they were hit. The Pentagon was struck, after the airplane circled around looking for a place to crash, in the one wing that was under renovation and therefore sparsely populated. The first attack on the World Trade Center happened just before 9:00 a.m., when most people would just be on their way to work. An attack at 10:00 or 11:00 would've yielded thousands more casualties. An attack on the Indian Point nuclear power plant could've been devastating, causing more severe and long-lasting damage to the New York metro area (and to the United States as a whole) than a hundred planes crashing into a hundred buildings.
You'd think the people planning the attack would've gone over these not-so-subtle details and managed to get more "bang for their buck." Sept. 11 could have been so much worse than it was.
You'd think the people planning the attack would've gone over these not-so-subtle details and managed to get more "bang for their buck." Sept. 11 could have been so much worse than it was.