Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I believe that this discussion is the most important discussion this group has ever engaged in. This is life and death, and ALL means to dissuade the US and NATO from blindly lashing out with knee-jerk anger should be used. Please Please Please, cut through the grief and somehow touch base with humanity and try to understand that the white hot hatred that drives suicide bombers will not be cured by a military response. If your anger is so intense that you are unable to touch this base then use cold hearted logic and realise that if the US and NATO escalate this event then the next time the bombers strike it could be nuclear. Solve the root problem, and this type of terrorism will go away I sincerely hope that my contribution to this topic has not lowered the high standard of debate that has taken place here. I do not have the education to take this discussion further. I have spent nine years in the British military during a time when the primary enemy were terrorists from Northern Ireland, Malaysia, Borneo, Kenya and the Yemen. I look at my four year old daughter now and shudder with fear for her. Quote from the URL below from Jim Muir of the BBC. The fact is that for more than five decades, in defiance of countless UN resolutions and of international law, the Palestinians' land has been occupied and their rights ignored by Israel, with full diplomatic cover and open-ended financial and military backing from Washington End of Quote http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1540000/1540364.st m Alan