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Re: Some other perspectives on the tragedy
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:33:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
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> These groups wouldn't be nearly so well funded, organized, or even around if
> the governments funding them knew that they would made to suffer for doing
> that just as if they decided to send one of their own bombers over to attack
> our cities.
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> We're not going to put an end to this by talking, or playing nice. We may
> not put an end to it at all - ever. But we can make it so overwhelmingly
> costly that we might just put an end to state-sponsored terrorism.
And which government do you think has funded them and trained them? Which
country's special forces trained Bin Laden in military and guerilla tactics?
Which country trained the Iraqi troops? Which nation provides the most
funds to the IRA? Which country trained the people who are currently
suspected of taking over those planes and slamming them into the World Trade
Center to fly a plane in the first place?
I don't mean this as an attack on anyone's foreign policies, but I'm just
trying to make the point here that there's a lot more going on on the global
stage that you can't just ignore in your frustration.
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| (...) Bin Laden was a part of the Mujahedin guerilla, fighting the Soviet troops as they tried to invade Afghanistan. Key members of the Mujahedin guerilla where trained by the CIA, and rather successfully, too. They did hold off the Soviet troops (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Yeah, and how exactly do we give peace a chance? What does that mean, just keep waving our fingers at these groups and the governments that fund, train, harbor, and protect them? Take it on the chin again and ask one government or another to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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