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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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To: Loyal Buckeye
Oh, you know, 9/11 was no big deal. It is just Americans who can’t take the occasional terrorist attack because we are all frightened cowards. >S<
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:48:26 AM PDT
by
tiki
To: Obadiah
I sincerely hope if there is a successful attack this POS is a victim.
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:48:40 AM PDT
by
mimaw
To: ladtx
More “competent terrorists” would have done a better job in the first Trade Towers bombing in 1993. It damaged, but did not destroy. However, the terrorists learned from their mistakes. Gwynne is a fool, and in this article panders to the knee-jerk hate-America crowd that dominates the European Left.
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:49:01 AM PDT
by
Melchior
To: Loyal Buckeye
Wow, this guy takes the Monty Python approach to terrorism, “It’s only a flesh wound.” If England chooses to take this approach the entire country will be a debilitated torso soon enough.
Go Bucks!
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:50:28 AM PDT
by
bigcat32
To: Loyal Buckeye
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:50:37 AM PDT
by
ishabibble
(ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: Loyal Buckeye
A majority of Americans finally have figured out that the invasion of Iraq really had nothing to do with fighting terrorism
Really? Then why are the Brits fighting in Iraq - a little cool, post-colonial nostalgia?
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:51:18 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: Loyal Buckeye
The terror attacks won’t matter till they strike a media center, i.e., Black Rock, the NYT building .. THEN it will be very important. Notice that the death of a group of soldiers in Iraq is given a sentence; the death of a single reporter is covered in story after story for days on end.
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:51:20 AM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: metesky
Mark Steyn
Thanks.
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:52:56 AM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
To: Loyal Buckeye
“Russians also are pretty cool about the occasional terrorist attacks”
Talk to all those children that were killed by Chechen r5ebels in that school a few years ago. I am sure they are real happy with how cool the Russians played it!
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:55:02 AM PDT
by
Holicheese
(Zap Razdowler Rules!)
To: Loyal Buckeye
Inexperience is one reason: American cities never have been bombed in war, so Americans have no standard of comparison that would shrink terrorism to its true importance in the scale of threats that face any modern society.The Civil War did affect some US cities--just a little bit. Americans are not strangers to violence or war. Most the present population of Europe have not experienced war. Since 1945, it has been America that has borne the brunt of the battle against Communism and militant Islamic fundamentalism. We lost more people on 9/11 in a few hours than all of the casualties lost by Europeans due to their various homegrown and foreign terrorist groups.
Today, terrorists can use WMD and inflict far greater casualties than ever before. The Europeans' attitude will change overnight if a terrorist attack of the scale of 9/11 were visited upon them. If this author does not understand the true nature of the threat, then she is due for a rude awakening.
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:56:08 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: Loyal Buckeye
A majority of Americans finally have figured out that the invasion of Iraq really had nothing to do with fighting terrorism, but they certainly have not understood that terrorism itself is only a minor threat.Standard Marxist talking points.
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:56:45 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: MrB
Why would they destroy their biggest source of intel?
Not to mention their biggest source of Agit-Prop.
On the other hand rational thought is not an islamic tradition......
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posted on
07/03/2007 5:56:46 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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."The collateral damage of Jihad argument.
So what's the "sense of proportion?": a hundred dead? a thousand? a couple of million and a mushroom cloud?
Hey, it's the "cost of doing business."
To: ClearCase_guy
Yeah, only one major attack—that killed over 3000 Americans and cost the economy hundreds of billions. Its incredible how these critics try to minimize this catastrophe. Listening to some of them, you’d think 9/11 was just a pipe bomb thrown into a dumpster by some teenager.
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:05:13 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: metesky
He's as left as left can get. Ab-so-freakin'-loutely!
His prose style is not as inflamatory as you'd expect from a Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, etc. And -- in my own paper where he often appears -- he gets a little discriptive line suggesting that he is the most impartial and educated man on earth.
His ~style~ may not scream, but his content is just as shrill, leftist, and America-hating as it can possibly be.
He occupies the role in the culture war that Joseph Goebbels occupied in WWII: He has not killed anyone with his own hands (as far as I know), but he deserves to be on any prospective list of war criminal capital defendants. Of course, if we are lucky, he will also end it all in a bunker with his fellow madmen before the people can get at him.
To: Loyal Buckeye
This woman is a complete ass.
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:08:07 AM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Scotsman will be Free
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:10:55 AM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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. Sounds like Gwynne not only brings a sense of proportion, he brings popcorn, too. Only a bright mind like Gwynne Dyer could portray terrorism like it's the common cold.
I suppose he puts that on his Happy Earth Day cards he sends to the the families of 9/11: "It's strictly business."
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:16:44 AM PDT
by
Rutles4Ever
(Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna)
To: Loyal Buckeye
Unfortunately for the few people who actually get it in europe, this attitude is exactly what the islamist scumbags love to hear. Think about this: What DOES an occasional terror attack constitute? It may be one every six months now. Then one a month at some point then weekly and so on until the dumb ass frog is boiled to death. This man is a smuck!
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:17:53 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(The Islamists plan to kill us.The Democrats and the ratmedia are helping them. Ft Dix proves it!)
To: Loyal Buckeye
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?
For the same reason the US led in WWII. The Euros were getting their collective asses kicked. Enter U.S. - the result ? the "1000 year" Reich wasn't.
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:19:14 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Since bad golf shots come in groups of 3, a 4th bad shot is the start of the next group of 3)
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