Posted on 07/03/2007 5:19:12 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
You mean “girly guy”?
Liberals always play down the threat...always the same story... All terrorists that get caught are idiots... Therefore since they are so incapable we can go back to our latte looking down our noses at those who protect our precious arrogant butts...
The Europe is Great/Evolved, the USA Sucks F1 story is so played out.
Interesting, hold for later.
It seems to me one of God's little ironies that He has arranged things such that the more intelligent people become, the more they are ensnared in their own intellectual jungle until they become eloquent idiots.
I am thinking God likes simple people and despises the arrogant.
The opening line of the book is as follows:
“The United States needs to lose the war in Iraq as soon as possible. Even more urgently, the whole world needs the United States to lose the war in Iraq. What is at stake now is the way we run the world for the next generation or more, and really bad things will happen if we get it wrong.”
It always pays to do some research into an author. Without this examination it is difficult to decide whether they are friend, foe or spend their days in tin foil land making nifty hats.
Mind you, these are the same journalists who breathlessly say "Five soldiers died in Iraq last week! Five! Game over, man! We've lost! We've got to pull out!"
But 9/11? Well, it was just one attack, no need to get all excited ...
This butthole is not a mere "liberal." He takes it to the next level and beyond.
I am opening a file on this character just in case Sean Hannity's vision ever comes to pass: Today is a day of reckoning let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong, roll the stone away, let the guilty pay, it’s independence day.
We will need to have a list of "the guilty" ready to hand.
An occasional terrorist attack is one of the costs of doing business in the modern world.
This is a European attitude which is a mixture of indolence and cowardice. The US always has been more pro-active against terrorrist than the Europeans vide T.Jefferson and the barbary pirates.
You just have to bring a sense of proportion to the problem, as people in Europe do in general.
Wrong. People in Europe have a long history of letting a problem fester until it bursts out into a massive problem that would have been averted had it been tackled at an earlier stage.
They know that they are likelier to win the lottery than to be hurt by terrorists.
They may know this but they also know that their political masters have a long history of indifference to the wants and needs of the general populace.
Russians also are pretty cool about the occasional terrorist attacks linked to the war in Chechnya,
They are pretty cool about such attacks - once they find the terrorists they eliminate them. Don't hold your breath waiting for the western Europeans to eliminate their terrorists.
the vast majority of the people don't believe it.
The vast majority of people in Europe have been so brainwashed by their insitutions that they are indifferent to the reality of what ther politicians have done to them.
Whereas in the United States, most people do believe it.
No more so than the Europeans
but they certainly have not understood that terrorism itself is only a minor threat.
Written like a true graduate of the Neville Chamberlin school of diplomacy
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? American cities never have been bombed in war,
Honolulu ( Pearl Harbor) apparently doesn't count.
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.
So the hundreds of thousands of US troops who personally witnessed the devastation of the European cities when they pulled the Europeans chestnuts out of the fire in WWI and WWII do not Count? Or the troops who witnessed the results of the fire bombing of Tokyo and the devastation caused at Hiroshima and Nagasaki ? What a stupid statement.
Ridiculous as it sounds to outsiders, Americans regularly are told that their survival as a free society depends on beating the "terrorists."
Americans have learnt that if you let an external threat grow without facing it you pay a much heavier price later - a lesson the Europeans have failed to learn after two devestating wars.
They should treat those who say such things as fools or deliberate liars, but they don't. So the manipulators of public opinion in the White House and the more-compliant sectors of the U.S. media will give bigger play to the British bombings-that-weren't than Britain's own government and media have, and they will get away with it.
AP,CNN, CBS,NBC, etc you are all tools of the Bush administration!
Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
Who should be treated as a deliberate liar and propagandist for the cause of pacifism.
I can think of quite a few terrorist attacks in the USA since Sept. 11, 2001! They have been so-called minor incidents, but have killed our citizens just as much as a large attack. The probelm is the MSM does not pay any attention to these incidents.
What about the Richard Reed case on the airplane? How about the guy who drove his car into a crowd of college students in either No. or So. Carolina? An incident at the LA airport at the El Al ticket line when an Israeli was murdered by a Muslim; an incident in Salt Lake City last year at a mall; an incident in Seattle recently??? I think there have been a few more too, which I have not included here.
This woman is clueless and ought to be fired for printing outright nonsence.
Counterterrorism Blog
NEFA Series “Target America”: The Illinois Shopping Mall Plot
By Evan Kohlmann
On the heels of the foiled plots targeting Fort Dix and JFK Airport, the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation announces the release of the third in a series of reports examining the multitude of terrorist plots directed at the United States since 9/11. This week’s report again focuses on the homegrown threat, documenting Derrick Shareef’s plans to launch a grenade attack on the CherryVale Shopping Center in Rockford, Illinois. In preparation for his assault, Shareef carried out surveillance, attempted to procure weapons, and recorded a martyrdom tape, in which he ominously warned: “My name is Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef. I am 22 years of age. I am from America, and this tape is to let you guys know, who disbelieve in Allah, to let the enemies of Islam know, and to let the Muslims alike know that the time for jihad is now.”
This week (June 12, 2007): “The Illinois Shopping Mall Plot”
Week of June 6, 2007: The L.A. Plot to Attack U.S. Military and Jewish Targets
Week of June 6, 2007: The Miami Plot to Bomb Federal Buildings and the Sears Tower
By Evan Kohlmann on June 12, 2007 6:56 PM
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/06/nefa_series_target_america_the.php
Oh well, we have nothing to worry about then. Thanks, English chick, for putting us reactionary serfs back in our place. Terrorism is just a nuisance after all.
No. They would have been calling for the heads of every Western government leader--blaming them for the Muslims' hatred of us.
Whoops! I did not realize this idiot was a male. My apologies to womanhood. It seems that men can be dizzy too.
I tried. But I just couldn’t read this steaming pile of sh*t.
Amazing how she forgets the first WTC terrorist attack. And how failing to respond to that attack led directly to the second.
Liberal idiocy on parade.
She didn’t forget the first attack on the WTC. She cherry-picked the dates.
Exactly. Plus, she ignored all the attacks on US interests abroad that were never dealt with properly - especially the Cole bombing.
Bombings in Africa, Beirut, etc. etc. etc.
America has suffered a steady stream of terrorist attacks going back to the Boston Tea Party (those darned American Indians!). People just forget about them. Who remembers Black Tom Island in 1916?
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