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Bought time the British got a move on. They’ve been traipsing after these morons for ages. Can we have a bit more decisiveness please?

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See what you can do with warrants?

That’s OK, Georgie boy, you just stay on vacation. You’ll do less damage that way.

Hubris is followed by . . . ?

Whatever the nature of the plot (and details are still rather sketchy) it is perhaps wise to eschew triumphalism for a more measured and intelligent analysis. First of all – contrary to justifying the current strategy in the so-called “war on terror”, these latest “events” serve, in my opinion, as evidence that said strategy continues providing fertile soil for such acts instead of discouraging them. As David Gardner, writing for the Financial Times, expressed:

When the US and its British ally decided to invade Iraq in 2003, certain consequences were always clear, except, perhaps, to those driving the strategy in Washington and London. It was clear beforehand that this was a step that would proliferate jihadism, risked turning Iraq into a Lebanon cubed and would destroy western credibility and legitimacy in the Arab and Muslim worlds.

So much for the so-called flypaper theory of fighting them over there (in the Middle East) so we don’t have to fight them here at home.

Well, I seem to remember when we did nothing–they thought we were cowards who deserved to die and made sure the next attack was bigger and better. The only thing that will appease them is if I wear a potato sack and cover my head with a bee keeper’s net and allow myself to be bred like a cow.
* The first World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993, Clinton did nothing
* 10 months later in Mogadishu, Somalia… an attack on American military forces who were in country to bring food to starving Somalis, eighteen American soldiers were killed and the body of one was dragged through the streets in a gesture designed to formally humiliate the world’s greatest super power. Clinton turned tail and ran.
* In 1995, Ramzi Youssef was captured in the Philippines with plans to use commercial airliners to blow up CIA headquarters among other targets.Plans to tighten airport security were rejected by the White House on the grounds that they might be construed as “racial profiling.” Did not want to piss off CAIR and ACLU. So he did NOTHING.
* In 1996 in the Khobar Towers, 19 U.S. servicemen were killed but the Saudis refused to cooperate in tracking down the killers. The Clinton Administration did nothing.
* In 1998, they blew up the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania– 245 people were killed and 6,000 injured. Clinton’s bombed an aspirin factory in the Sudan and an empty terrorist camp in Khost.
* In October 2000, al-Qaeda attacked the U.S.S Cole, an American warship, killing 17 servicemen. Clinton did nothing.
*Able Danger pinponted that Atta piece of garbage–but Clinton did squat, so years later Sandy Berger had to hide incriminating evidence in his underwear and socks.

Doing nothing gets you more terror–they feel brave and strive for bigger and better.

Doing nothing gets you more terror–they feel brave and strive for bigger and better.

Not quite accurate.

It is not reasonable to think these people just woke up one day and decided to attack us. There is a history to everything and it behooves us to acquaint ourselves with that history.

The single outstanding issue which generates the greatest tension in the Middle East is the Palestinian question. Solve the issue and you remove the raison d’être of terrorism. The USA has been backing and sustaining the Israeli war machine for decades. By aligning ourselves with Israel, we opening ourselves up for attack. May I suggest you familiarize yourself with the history of the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Eventually you will come across Camp David “peace process” and (if you search hard enough) the formal negotiations that took place in 2001 at Taba, Egypt:

The Taba talks are one of the most significant and least remembered events of the “peace process.” While so far in 2002 (1/1/02-5/31/02), Camp David has been mentioned in conjunction with Israel 35 times on broadcast network news shows, Taba has come up only four times–never on any of the nightly newscasts. In February 2002, Israel’s leading newspaper, Ha’aretz (2/14/02), published for the first time the text of the European Union’s official notes of the Taba talks, which were confirmed in their essential points by negotiators from both sides.

“Anyone who reads the European Union account of the Taba talks,” Ha’aretz noted in its introduction, “will find it hard to believe that only 13 months ago, Israel and the Palestinians were so close to a peace agreement.” At Taba, Israel dropped its demand to control Palestine’s borders and the Jordan Valley. The Palestinians, for the first time, made detailed counterproposals–in other words, counteroffers–showing which changes to the 1967 borders they would be willing to accept. The Israeli map that has emerged from the talks shows a fully contiguous West Bank, though with a very narrow middle and a strange gerrymandered western border to accommodate annexed settlements.

yeah, kat, lets nuke em al, what?

Too bad Dr. Mathews that you are so stuck up the camel’s ass that you dwell on the past but fail to see the present–unwilling converts burned to death with rubber tires thrown around them, babies cut out of pregnant women who won’t accept islam, a whole village burned and the heads of the children impaled on poles, beheadings, etc. etc. You truly are a terrorist tool and I’m not about to turn your crank by continuing to try address today’s problem–islamofascism. You’d always find a way to excuse it by looking for equivalencies –but the Christians, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Pagans, the Animists–they all made the poor muslims do it.

As we say in the West Indies, you’re the pot bottom calling the kettle black.

Here we go again, with the “Mohammed was a terrorist” shit. Kat goes back in history then takes Dr. Mathews to task for doing the same.

By the way, Kat, while you’re pointing out Clinton’s failings, you perhaps forgot to mention that we didn’t do much throughout the eighties as well. Oh, we did bake cakes or Iranian leaders…the same who supported the scum in Hezbollah that bombed the U.S. Marine barracks 23 years ago, killing 241. Clinton wasn’t president then. It was Reagan.

And to Dr. Mathews, if you solve the Palestinian question, you solve…the Palestinian question and nothing else. Many of the terrorist attacks against us have little or nothing to do with Palestine or our support for Israel. Instead, it’s because we have power and influence in that region as a whole, and the terrorists are religious fanatics who resent that influence.

J.T.
Of course you are right. The Palestinian question is just one of many strands of the Arab Israeli conflict. They all need to (and can be) solved.