>>>Yet, you do not deny it.
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>>>The British are on the ball because it's been nearly 3 years for them to get on the ball. 9/11 was the first of it's kind.
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>>It wasn't. Only the first of that size and specific method of execution. There's no known cure for selective memory.
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>Are you referring to the IRA bombing or something like that? In that sense, that would also give the British some experience that the US doesn't have.

That too, but that's not all. While my country was socialist, a whole spectrum of terrorist groups had their training camps in Austria, Germany and some in Australia. They weren't just tolerated, they were hosted, and probably aided by secret services of several countries (not necessarily the physical hosts). We've had a group of about 20 of them inserted into the country in the middle of a hot tourist season in 1972 (all heavily armed, quickly caught or shot); we had a bomb kill several people in a full movie; we had a regular civilian airplane downed (by planted explosive - stewardess survived), we had our embassador in Sweden assasinated, and then another group hijacked an airplane demanding the release of the assasin (succeeded). A longer list is compiled at http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosta/ndh/ndh-list_of_cro_terrorist_attacks.html (the page is ugly and hard to read because of the background picture, but the data are right).

And that's only what I know - I have no idea how much of this was done against other countries back then.

My point here is that you can't tolerate one kind of terrorism and fight the other kind. There's only one kind, and either no country is a legitimate target, or they all are.


>>>You very simplistically post these threads that sound a lot like a regurgitation of Kerry/Edwards rhetoric in the hopes of...
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>>Renoir, I'm disappointed. That's called "labelling" and is a very low grade argument technique. I've heard it used here a lot, and guess what - Milosevic and his thugs also used it a lot. You don't want to be in such company.
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>No technique. I was serious. That's exactly why I think he posted what he did.

Then you sound like a regurgitation of the right-wing talking points. Or a Milosevic's crony in a mud-slinging exercise. Accent being on "sound". This "I'll tell you who you sound like, and that guy is so-and-so" is quite handy when you want to avoid answering the actual question.

There's a legendary story that all college students back home hear sooner or later: a professor on zoology never asked any other thing from his students but to know worms extensively. Any other species never came to exam. So his students learned worms, all about the worms, and nothing but the worms.

One day, a student gets to answer about elephants.

"Elephants, um,... are four legged mammals, with very thick skin, large ears and a trunk in front which looks like a huge worm, and worms are a species which..."