At 11:25 AM 12/30/01 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>The WTC and Pentagon were hit by civilian airplanes; civilian airplanes are
>not weapons.
You can feel free to tell the several thousand people who died "Hey, at
least you weren't killed by weapons!"
Sorry, Jeroen, but both "traditional war" and "terrorism" constitute "armed
attacks." The North Atlantic Treaty simply specifies that it refers to
armed attacks.
I am sorry if other North Atlantic Treaty Members who were victims of armed
attacks did not feel that they needed the assistance of the Alliance to
defend themselves, but it certainly was their right. The US certainly
can't force anyone else to invoke the Treaty.
JDG
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John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #3527685
"Our campaign against international terrorism does not represent some
sort of 'clash of civilizations.' Instead, it is a clash between
civilization and those who would destroy it." -Amb. Richard N. Haass
