On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:20:09 -0700 (PDT) "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > 7000 miles or a million... Terrorism doesn't know any distance > > boundaries. On 9/11 and ever since, how about a chorus of "It's a > > small > > world afterall!" > > 9/11 had nothing to do with that. The fact that the US govt couldn't > communicate intradepartmentally, nevermind, interdepartmentally, is what > caused it.
That is indeed an interesting point of view, but I don't see a lick of logic in it.. > > > Where is there evidence that Iraq is harboring terrorists?? I dont' > > see > > > us going into Northern Ireland to root out the IRA. I don't see us > > > > overrunning the Spanish government to get rid of the Basque > > Separatists. > > > I don't see us bombing Sri Lanka to wipe out the Tamil Tigers. If > > > we're going to talk about seeking out & destroying terrorists groups > > in > > > "other countries" then perhaps we need to talk about it honestly. > > > > Northern Ireland hasn't caused us the grief which our friends in Iraq > > and what grief is this? all of a sudden its ok to allow some terrorists > to remain, yet not others? That is quite perverse, to say the least. One step at a time, here. Now it's you who appears to be thinking we need to fix everyone else's problems. I don't see it as our place to step in in Ireland, yea though I'm of Irish descent. You must be pretty far Left if you think that we need to erradicate all grief and suffering in all areas of the globe. Or are you in the Miss America pageant? "If I could do one thing, it would be World Peace" > Once again, i didn't realize that some terrorist organizations had a > right to exist, while others did not. I'd call Al Qaeda a clan. > They're certainly not a country, or a governing body. Even if the happenings in Ireland were considered "Terrorism", would you take on every problem at once? _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
