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[vicarz]

So there are preliminary reports from the Soviet Union - I heard a UK reporter on GayDar radio (not what i expected to be listening to today - I just wanted happy disco) explaining what happened:
A bunch of children made a run for it, and the terrorists shot at them and even left the building to pursue them. It was at that event that the Russian troops set of charges to blow the walls down (fearing main throughways were booby-trapped) and invaded. Many of the terrorists stormed out with the children to try and escape in the fray, many are currently being pursued. Some journalists have reported been inside the gymnasium, and saw what might be more than a hundred bodies. The area had been burning, where the children were kept. The reporters I heard were speaking over the sound of bullets flying.

Once again, I'm back to 'anyone that supports the terrorists should be bombed into glass.' Sorry if the anger offends anyone, but I have no sympathy for the Chech separatists, the destabilizing people in Iraq...I know that wrong things are occurring but I don't agree with targeting non-military targets in response.

I'd get more mad if it wasn't the US that initiated this form of terrorism and trained most of the terrorist leaders with our tax dollars. I get angry, but I'm not sure where to direct that anger.

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[vicar.livejournal.com]

Well until we invaded Iraq, we were funding and training 'terrorists' to bomb things like pipilines, power stations, and water supplies to try and harbor dissatisfaction with the leader. Guess what's going on now!

[transentient.livejournal.com]

That's true...so the obvious question is, why did they do those things, and why do they do them now? Just because they were trained to do so? You and I both train in ways of killing another human being with our bare hands but we don't go doing that every day, do we?

The neo-cons are very interested in enforcing a black-and-white "good guys vs bad guys" answer to this question, so that they can continue to influence America to allow them to approriate huge amounts of tax dollars which they can efficiently funnel into the companies that they and their good ol' boys own. And clearly a lot of Americans simply think that Arabs are basically evil people who simply hate us, and maybe that is because we turned them into brutal monsters or whatever but now we need to put them down.

But really, the thing that motivates every terrorist today, whether its a Palestinian, a Basque seperatist, an IRA bomber, whatever, is the desire to have their own home. If we can give them that, then we'll win the "war on terror." The only thing we the Americans have to give up is stuff that we the Americans aren;t going to benefit from anyways such as no-bid contracts for Halliburton, etc.

Dang I must have made my coffee extra strong this morning or something.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Good points - without any areas of squallor and poverty (real poverty, not running water and tv-owning US poverty) there isn't enough unrest to inspire much terrorism.

True too - knowing how to do it, and doing it, are different things. In this country we have a 'right to bear arms,' but abuse of that right leads to all sorts of trouble.