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You're talking about reality; he's talking about politics. If somebody succeeds in blowing up another plane, the political fallout will be much, much worse than
by wrs 17y ago
You're talking about reality; he's talking about politics. If somebody succeeds in blowing up another plane, the political fallout will be much, much worse than what comes of armed confrontation with the Islamic world--which, after all, happens practically every day.
- barrkel 17y agoWell... an attempted bomber comes from Yemen, now people start thinking about maybe focusing attention on Yemen. Maybe Somalia too. And there are riots on the streets of Egypt because the US is paying off Mubarak to isolate Gaza, what with their democratically elected government not being popular enough with the Israel. The US seems to me to be playing a very predictable game, manipulated into being the big bad guy in the Islamic fundamentalist story. And when a chunk of the US citizenry won't stand for doing nothing in the face of terrorism, the body politic is paralyzed by its fear and can be directed like a herd of cattle. I have read supposedly rational people actually say that "fighting them over there is better than fighting them here", as if terrorism was some kind of thing you beat by killing people. The mind boggles.