Do you think terrorism will ever just be a "nuisance?"

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by caseysmom
or just look at the daily paper

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...nce/index.html

That happens in Lost Angeles a few times a year.....

Just the other day a 14 year old boy-riding his bike-was shot in the street, while he was on his knees pleading for mercy, 19 times.
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If no one had been shooting rockets off, no one would have been killed.

What does blowing up a bus constitute??

[Lady's Human]

Why did the Israelis shoot the 13 y/o that was running toward them? Possibly because Hamas has been using women and children as bomb couriers, and the suicide bombers have been as young as 10 y/o. If they weren't afraid of getting blown up by kids, maybe they wouldn't have shot her. The 10 y/o in the story MAY have been hit by israeli fire, it's not definite. If the Israelis had not been recieving fire, maybe they wouldn't have had to shoot.

Most of the civilian casualties on the palestinian side have been accidental, as opposed to the civilian casualties on the Israeli side, which have been caused by targeted attacks.

Again, the Palestinian Charter still calls for the complete and utter destruction of Israel as a nation, as opposed to the Israelis, who while they have been violent in their methods, have been willing to come to the peace table and make real attempts at peace. The palestinians, however, have continually rejected peace offers from Israel, and even when they have accepted the peace offers have continued the bombing of civilians. In the last round of peace talks, the palestinians rejected the state offered to them by Israel. The leadership of the PLO has no interest in peace, as in peace they would lose their power and be tossed out like the corrupt garbage that they are.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Lady's Human
In the last round of peace talks, the palestinians rejected the state offered to them by Israel. The leadership of the PLO has no interest in peace, as in peace they would lose their power and be tossed out like the corrupt garbage that they are.

AMEN.

Check out any map offered by any arab county and you'll see that Israel is missing!!!!!

'nuff said!

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AND speaking of nuisance..

Check your local "propaganda" station and check out the film clip of the young man in Beslam, the place where those bees turds blew up 340 people, dressed in a suit.

A suit worn to a funeral that should not have happened.

Look closely at him and then think of what you can say to make his tears stop flowing......

Try to explain that ALL people are not not that vicious, cruel or friggin misguided....

Then explain to him why terrorism is a 'nuisance'.

Then try to erase the pain in his heart.


Hopefully we can do it without terrorists subjecting innocent people to their crap.

[Albea]

GENERAL SCOWCROFT ON MAKING TERRORISM A NUISANCE

Gen. Brent Scowcroft (ret.): "Can we win the war on terrorism? Yes, I think we can, in the sense that we can win the war on crime. There is going to be no peace treaty on the battleship Missouri in the war on terrorism, but we can break its back so that it is a horrible nuisance and not a paralyzing influence on our societies." [U.S. Institute of Peace, CONFERENCE ON AMERICA'S CHALLENGES IN A CHANGED WORLD, 9/5/02]

General Scowcroft served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Ford and the first President Bush. Born in Utah, he graduated from West Point and served in the Air Force in a number of capacities including Assistant Air Attache in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Military Assistant to President Nixon. From 1978 to 1987, General Scowcroft remained actively engaged in national security affairs, serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Board. He earned a Doctorate in International Relations from Columbia University.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Do I think terrorism will ever be just a "nuisance?" Certainly not as long as Bush and his ilk are in power. He is the best recruiting tool yet for terrorism.

Violence begets violence....and violence seems to be his answer to everything.

As long as we continue to ignore the search for WHY people hate America (and no....I don't believe it is because we love freedom... ) terrorism will continue. We cannot kill everyone. You cannot kill a weed by cutting off the top. You must get to the root.

This administration has no interest in the root.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary


Violence begets violence....and violence seems to be his answer to everything.

You are right.

People the go looking looking for a fight are the first ones to cry foul when they get hit back.

It usually starts with a flexed bicep and a verbal challenge to
"take" someone on.

Please make up your mind.....

Violence begets violence and in the same post you advocate "going after the root"..

Either we fight and die or we sit and die....

We go after terrorists or we don't.

I think we should invite them to sit down, have a beer and we can find out why they hate us...

And it's not that we LOVE freedom, It's because we Have freedom....

[lizbud]

Originally posted by Albea
GENERAL SCOWCROFT ON MAKING TERRORISM A NUISANCE

Gen. Brent Scowcroft (ret.): "Can we win the war on terrorism? Yes, I think we can, in the sense that we can win the war on crime. There is going to be no peace treaty on the battleship Missouri in the war on terrorism, but we can break its back so that it is a horrible nuisance and not a paralyzing influence on our societies." [U.S. Institute of Peace, CONFERENCE ON AMERICA'S CHALLENGES IN A CHANGED WORLD, 9/5/02]

General Scowcroft served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Ford and the first President Bush. Born in Utah, he graduated from West Point and served in the Air Force in a number of capacities including Assistant Air Attache in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Military Assistant to President Nixon. From 1978 to 1987, General Scowcroft remained actively engaged in national security affairs, serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Board. He earned a Doctorate in International Relations from Columbia University.

Way to go Alicia. So apropos. It's hard to argue with this
statement.

[RICHARD]

Hmmmmm,

where does Malicious Terrorism fall on the Terror alert color scale????


Black and blue???