--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm all for bombing the crap out of bad guys and killers, and showing > > fools just exactly what they are. > > It is kinda hard to do that when you cower in fear and/or harbor > > illusions about what it is you fear. > > But that is the entire point of Terrorism is it not? > > It is rather strange to see a country that not so long ago faced with > an iron will ten thousand nuclear warheads ready to vaporise its > cities and dozens of armoured divisions ready to pour across the > borders of its allies, that controls the seas with its carrier battle > groups and the skies with its thousands of combat aircraft suddenly > driven almost insane with terror by a few hijacked airliners. > > Why are so many Americans so afraid?
This strikes me as classic "generational arrogance" - the old saw that *our generation* dealt with threats much more sensibly than the young'uns out there. Sorry, but does anyone remember the red scare, McCarthyism, the missile gap, air raid drills in schools, backyard nuclear shelters, the Sputnik gap, "We Will Bury You", the domino theory, managed decline, etc.????? And I might point out that while some Muslim clerics may have been unfairly denied boarding onto a flight yesterday, we haven't exactly evicted all Muslims from their homes and sent them to concentration camps either. Yes, but it is *our* generation that is "driven almost insane." JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
