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Originally posted by Gabriel:
I just having a conversation with my sister and this came up.
Why is it now that America and it alies are 'going to war' to stop terrorists when groups like the real IRA and the Loyalists have been killing people for nearly 30 years, will they all move in the root out and destory these groups once the finished bombing Asganstan(?)and then what about the extremmist animal rights groups, will the be hunted down? Why have they all stood idaly by when Iseal commintes acts verging on geoside on Plastine or when hundreds of people are muilated and killed every day in Afica?
Why has it took an direct act agaisnt them to bring them to action?
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Because it was direct action against them. The above examples would involve meddling in disputes between two parties. This is now a direct attack on the largest city in the nation, and destruction of it's two largest buildings, as well as an attack on the symbol of military command.
On an emotional level (putting aside the loss of life for a moment) It's akin to totally wiping out say Sydney Tower and the Opera house, or Buckingham Palace and all of Picadilly Circus/Trafalgar Square, or The Arc D'Triomphe and Eiffel Tower, or The Kremlin and Saint Basils Cathedral, etc etc. It is an offense that such extreme vandalism removed buildings of such economic and character defining significance, let alone inflicting the monsterous loss of human life that outstrips the civil war losses, or the pearl harbour deaths.
This is where it stops. This is the line in the sand. Nothing ever justifies taking such a destructive, evil, selfish path.
I should also point out that the "funding of the IRA" came from various Irish Americans, not the American Government. Also America has more Jews than Israel does and more Irish than Ireland (People of Irish Ancestry outside Ireland number 70 million), so it's not hard to see why America's attitudes have been what they were.
Better now than never.
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