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scubadiver
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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:41 pm Post subject: "Hindsight and dealing with 9/11" |
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Comment in today's (12th Sept) Evening Standard by Sam Leith
| Quote: | "Ten years on from the horror of 9/11, I find myself returning to a counterfactual that has preoccupied me on and off ever sice. A thought experiment: what if, instead of responding as they did, the US had made the ultimate gesture of a hyperpower's self-confidence and simply turned the other cheek?
If they'd mourn their dead, rebuit the city, and treated the murders as a police matter - a grotesque crime rather than a military or political statement worthy of a response in kind?
Would it really have encouraged al-Qaeda? Or would it rather have made them seem vicious and small? And would the world, on balance, have been a better and safer place 10 years on than it is now? It's an open question - but I strongly suspect that it would."
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Front cover, oh how I chuckled 
Cameron warns Russia on bribes
DAVID CAMERON, in Moscow, today called on Russia to crack down on state corruption or lose out on trade and investment opportunities.
Saying the "rule of law is vital", he criticised endemic bribery.
Full story Page 4
Oh well least it's only a story eh 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: "Hindsight and dealing with 9/11" |
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| scubadiver wrote: | Comment in today's (12th Sept) Evening Standard by Sam Leith
| Quote: | "Ten years on from the horror of 9/11, I find myself returning to a counterfactual that has preoccupied me on and off ever sice. A thought experiment: what if, instead of responding as they did, the US had made the ultimate gesture of a hyperpower's self-confidence and simply turned the other cheek?
If they'd mourn their dead, rebuit the city, and treated the murders as a police matter - a grotesque crime rather than a military or political statement worthy of a response in kind?
Would it really have encouraged al-Qaeda? Or would it rather have made them seem vicious and small? And would the world, on balance, have been a better and safer place 10 years on than it is now? It's an open question - but I strongly suspect that it would."
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Especially considering every dollar bill has "In God We Trust" and that the God they trust in says in the Bible "Vengeance is mine says The LORD, I (not US Administration) will repay" Reiterated by Christ in the New Testament "he who is without sin let him cast the first stone"
One hope is that the natural loudness and apparent arrogance of the yanks will really come down hard on the US Admin when the truth is out. Thats if like us in the UK the "dumbing" of society down can be overidden
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