No, avoiding blowing ourselves up (or summering ourselves out?) means we had much bigger things to be afraid of than capital-t Terrorism.
For what it's worth, I believe that instead of starting a war and an occupation, when the Taliban said they were ready to give ObL up on condition the US provide some evidence he was behind WTC, they could've simply been taken up on their offer. (Similar goes for "WMD")
Until I looked up the original and discovered that "recaps" was meant to be taken literally, I was ready to be impressed*, as I'm a fan of those trailers that tell different stories, eg: death star as insurance fraud, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXxi9IKZSA (an interpretation so strong, it even continues to work for the sequel)
which implication specifically? (for me zero extension is that set about which all predicates, even normally contradictory ones, are true)
in space-time anyway the GP appears to have had quite a bit of geometric extension, even in eigentime.
* but maybe I'm insufficiently suspending disbelief, as in my world, female grad students in archaeology wind up more often in places like Ürümqi, not in places like "Wilson"?
I guess the question is how to remain content with the ordinary yet still seek out the extraordinary? Look at the stars but keep your feet on the ground? (观星步土?)
> A man's retch should exceed his grasp / Or what's a heaving for? —not RB
For what it's worth, I believe that instead of starting a war and an occupation, when the Taliban said they were ready to give ObL up on condition the US provide some evidence he was behind WTC, they could've simply been taken up on their offer. (Similar goes for "WMD")