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Originally posted by Barry the Sprout:
Just a quick point Iron Ranger (and others, of course):
You admit that people are mad at the USA, you also admit that this anger is a large cause of the actual and potential terrorist attacks on America. Without going too much into the issue of whether or not the anger in question is justified (been there, done that... got the scars...) isn't it simply rational to want to care about the problem? If you ignore the causes of international terrorism and just go around bombing people then, I hate to say it, its quite likely to happen again.
How do you think we should get rid of terrorism? I have come to the conclusion that someone who arranges the genocide of 3000+ people cant be neogotiated with. These are NOT rational human beinings. Saddam proves we cant neogtiate with over the top middle eastern terrorist. Hes been proving that for a 10 years now.
It's always been my position that America didn't "deserve" the Sept 11th attacks, but maybe I think precisely this attitude is why people didn't see them coming. Ignoring this feeling, right or wrong, is a very dangerous course of action.
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Who exacly do you mean didnt see it coming? American syvlians? Your right of course, pre Sept 11th Americans wouldnt have thought in a million years something as awful as that could happen. Our minds wearnt on such things. In all honesty I cant remember what was important to me pre 9/11. But if your talking about the goverment, they did see it coming. They wear just a little to late in trying to stop it.
