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  Kommentar till text 25791 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Home-grown terrorism
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LEE LOFASO -> JOHN HULL wrote:
 LL> Hello John,

 JH>>> That mall is 38 miles from where I live.  If you think that didn't
 JH>>> send a cold chill down my spine, you'd be wrong.  There is nothing
 JH>>> strategic in this are except for the nuclear power plant at Byron.
 JH>>> Imagine what we'll have to dea with if the Democrats cut and run
 JH>>> from Iraq.  They'll follow us home like puppies following a
 JH>>> kindergartner.


 LL>>> Did the British "cut and run"?  AFAIK, the Brits are still in Iraq.
 LL>>> BEFORE AND AFTER being bombed in London.


 LL>>> The Spanish also got hit.  While in Iraq.  But the Spanish wisened
 LL>>> up, pulling their forces out after the bombings in Madrid.  Had they
 LL>>> done so sooner, it is likely no bombings would have taken place.


 LL>>> The French got the message after the bombings in Madrid, choosing
 LL>>> not to send any troops at all to Iraq.  That is probably why the
 LL>>> Eiffel Tower is still standing.


 LL>>> When will the anti-democratic right grow up and accept the fact that
 LL>>> terrorists will hit us on our shores at the time of their choosing?
 LL>>> That is what they did on 9-11.  And that is what they will do in the
 LL>>> future.


 LL>>> It makes no difference if the President of the United States is a
 LL>>> Democrat or a Republican.  It makes no difference which political
 LL>>> party controls the Congress.  Terrorists will hit us on our shores
 LL>>> at the time of their choosing.  All we can do is try to protect
 LL>>> ourselves the best way we know how.  And pray.


 JH>> You're not only a coward, but you're a stupid coward.  If you admire
 JH>> the damn French so much, why don't you just go and live there.  I'm
 JH>> sure you'd fit ri in with the rest of the surrender monkies.

 LL> Europeans, including the French, have dealt with terrorism for decades.
 LL> The Red Brigades in Italy.  The Basques in Spain.  Black September in
 LL> Germany.  The list goes on.  Americans have only recently begun dealing
 LL> with terrorism, having had to find out the hard way on 9/11 what
 LL> dedicated terrorists are capable of doing.

The French did not have to deal with the Red Brigades, the Basques or Black
September.

 LL> Sylvester Stallone starred in a movie dealing with this subject years
 LL> ago.  The issues brought up in that movie are still relevant today.

 LL> Rather than sending our troops on a fool's errand, we should be
 LL> protecting what is really important - America itself.

 LL> --Lee


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