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America overestimates terrorist threats while Europe deals with them
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | July 3, 2007 | Gwynne Dyer

Posted on 07/03/2007 5:19:12 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye

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"An occasional terrorist attack is one of the costs of doing business in the modern world. You just have to bring a sense of proportion to the problem, as people in Europe do in general.

Russians also are pretty cool about the occasional terrorist attacks..."

Chalk up one writer for Edwards.

1 posted on 07/03/2007 5:19:14 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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I wonder if the Press would be so flippant had it succeeded.


2 posted on 07/03/2007 5:20:56 AM PDT by traderrob6
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I wonder if the Press would be so flippant had it succeeded.

The answer is yes.

3 posted on 07/03/2007 5:23:39 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (A man who will not defend himself does not deserve to be defended by others.)
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To: traderrob6

You KNOW that if we had another attack, it wouldn’t be “business as usual” as they claim, but “WHY DID BUSH LET THIS HAPPEN!!!???”


4 posted on 07/03/2007 5:24:28 AM PDT by 50sDad (Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

Btw, this is the new meme that the left has agreed on spreading around. You can find it at several left wing blogs recently if you look for it.

Basically belittle any threat that terrorists pose, and even present terrorists as kind of a bumbling, harmless three stooges act.


5 posted on 07/03/2007 5:25:16 AM PDT by Dreagon
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To: Loyal Buckeye

“An occasional terrorist attack is one of the costs of doing business in the modern world. You just have to bring a sense of proportion to the problem, as people in Europe do in general.”

Better put some ice on that.


6 posted on 07/03/2007 5:25:35 AM PDT by Hornet19 (It's Time to Put Up or Shut Up...Where Do You Stand?)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

Perhaps if one sets off a car bomb outside Edwards’ office, or home, then we can judge how unwaivering his assessment on terrorism as a “cost of doing business” remains.


7 posted on 07/03/2007 5:26:00 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: Loyal Buckeye
This is what underestimating terrorists attacks leads to


8 posted on 07/03/2007 5:26:31 AM PDT by Always Right
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Poor Gwynne doesn’t seem to understand the concept that an incompetent terrorist can kill you just as dead as a competent terrorist, it may just take him more attempts to get it right.


9 posted on 07/03/2007 5:27:32 AM PDT by ladtx ("You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." Will Rogers)
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There has been only one major terrorist attack in the United States since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and that one, on 9/11, is almost six years in the past. So how have Americans been persuaded that their duty and their destiny in the 21st century is to lead the world in a titanic, globe-spanning "long war" against terrorism?

Clueless.

10 posted on 07/03/2007 5:28:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
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I wonder if the Press would be so flippant had it succeeded.

Of course, unless it was at a night club frequented by the MSM players. Of course they would get over it.

11 posted on 07/03/2007 5:28:16 AM PDT by nativist (Weigh into them!)
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The answer is yes.

Maybe a Moo will drive a bomb into the NY Times lobby as a target. That might get their attention...
12 posted on 07/03/2007 5:30:18 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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The conclusions in this article are in error.

The terrorists were quite competent and all of their devices should have worked as designed.

However, the cellphone service didn't support the mission.

There can now be no doubt that the only way you can get good cellphone service in Central London is to be inside or very nearly inside a building. This is a sign that the Brits have installed devices throughout the area that suppress cellphone signals from the Cell to the handset.

Their airports seem to be equally well-guarded with this new technology.

13 posted on 07/03/2007 5:31:05 AM PDT by muawiyah
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There has been only one major terrorist attack in the United States since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995

There have been 3 terrorist attacks since '93 in the US and numerous ones toward the Us. This person is a clueless moron, or does she have an agenda.

14 posted on 07/03/2007 5:31:13 AM PDT by nativist (Weigh into them!)
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What a complete idiot.

What does she think started the Chechnya war???

And what exactly does she think the “cost of doing business” was in New York on September 11, 2001?

One of these days a a city is going to go up in a flash of light - then what you do you imbecile?

15 posted on 07/03/2007 5:32:08 AM PDT by DB
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"Chalk up one writer for Edwards."

It's just a bumper sticker.

16 posted on 07/03/2007 5:32:28 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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America overestimates terrorist threats while Europe deals with them

Yeah, they deal with it by taking it in the shorts like a new guy in prison general population.

17 posted on 07/03/2007 5:34:34 AM PDT by Clam Digger
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...the Brits have installed devices throughout the area that suppress cellphone signals...

I have been thinking the same thing. That's probably why the poor ignorant, helpless, little freedom fighters set the car on fire at Glasgow, and didn't rely on a cell phone.

18 posted on 07/03/2007 5:34:55 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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I reccomend saving this little gem and pulling it out the next time the blood of many innocent Americans is shed by terrorists and e-mailing it back to this self-absorbed leftist.

Apparently, after the murder of 3,000 people on 9/11 America wasn’t as cool about it as the Russians are. I guess we have a lot to learn about being cool from leftists like this guy, huh?


19 posted on 07/03/2007 5:35:22 AM PDT by Obadiah
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I got so excited I skipped a word...

“- then what will you do you imbecile?” is what it was supposed to say...


20 posted on 07/03/2007 5:35:33 AM PDT by DB
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