"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > 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.
I feel like the chief difference is that in this case, it was the US that was injured. There isn't any difference between Lockerbie (spelling?) or this (excepting final death toll) other than location. -j- -- I need a new .sig
