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Skriven 2005-12-05 08:02:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av WARD DOSSCHE
Ärende: WWII Immigration Stan
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-=> Quoting Ward Dossche to Frank Scheidt <=-

 > WD> Morally obliged? Since when?
 
 > Since it became apparently terrorism is *international*.  We
 > can't do the job all alone.  Europe should stand up and do its
 > share.  Of course part of Europe *is*, but a small part ...
 WD> 
 WD> From what I read here security services have uncovered many terrorism
 WD> ploys and scuttled quite some attempts at violence. I suppose overthere
 WD> you have never heard about the GICM-issue, Nizar Trabelsi, ...
 
 WD> We've had terror-attacks here in the past. Brussels airport has been
 WD> attacked several times, usually on the days when El Al airplanes
 WD> arrived or departed. A Sabena 707 was hi-jacked by
 WD> Palestinian-terrorists, another Sabena 707 was blown-up at Tel Aviv
 WD> airport, the diamond-exchange in Antwerp (the world-center to trade
 WD> industrial-diamonds) was blown to smithereens by muslims in the early
 WD> 70-ies... 

True enough, but those examples were very small-scale events, 
*nothing* like the 3,000 innocents slaughtered on 9/11.

 WD> Opposing terrorism by a conventional army is ridiculous. In the case
 WD> of Iraq that explanation was only brewed-together after the WMD-bubble
 WD> collapsed. 

Not really.  It was the reason we invaded Afghanistan.

 WD> Our country had several development aid-programmes in the Middle East
 WD> and summoned representatives of different groups to Brussels to simply
 WD> tell them that "no-one is being accused but will you please take the
 WD> message home that if this continues to go on we will stop all
 WD> Middle-East and Palestinian development aid".

Sounds like *one* reasonable approach ...
 
 WD> Terrorism stopped ... until 9-11 when overnight the US managed to
 WD> maneuver themselves in a target-position again.

We haven't "maneuvered" ourselves into *anything*.  We were the 
innocent victims of 9/11 and we're making the terrorist world pay 
a terrible price for having done that!
 
 > In other words, as usual, Europe is letting the US carry the load
 WD> 
 WD> Most countries here do not send their sons and daughters to be killed
 WD> over a lie.

Good.  We don't do that *either* ... so?  That is, what's your 
point?
 
 > Hmmmmm ... how then did we *first* save Europe from the Nazis
 > then from the Soviet Union??  Or would you prefer merely ducking
 > the question ... heh heh heh ...
 WD> 
 WD> You may be forgetting that you have re-hashed this now a dozen-times
 WD> or so. It's getting a little boring.

True.  However many, if not most Europeans seem not to have 
learned that ... [sigh] ...

... Captain, there be whales!   Scotty!  That's a mirror!

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