<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by anrkitec:
I will not comment on the individual whom I do not know or the book, which I have not read.
I will however concede that there are in fact many people who do consider thoughts and ideas (as might me contained in a book for example) to be dangerous and are fearful of such things. 
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Harrod's department store in London was bombed on December 16, 1983 by the northern Ireland terrorist organization Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). The bombing killed five, including one U.S. citizen, and injured ninety-one others.
That U.S. citizen had a name, and a wife. Both are/were friends of mine.
Did you lose anyone on 9/11? Was it a friend? A member of your family?
I know what is dangerous and what I am fearful of. I am fearful of people like you, who have not yet had their first bitter taste of terrorism. Your glib attitude is dangerous. Your smugness is dangerous.
I don't see terrorism in the abstract. Imagine the ugly irony of a husband purchasing Christmas gifts for his soon to be twenty-something widow.
What is dangerous is people like you, armchair-quarterbacking. People like you who won't come off of the sidelines in the war against terrorism.
People like you are dangerous for offering a lame critique of actions designed to protect you. What is your alternative? Where is your perfect plan?
I would not wish it on anyone, but when you taste it firsthand, you will drop your "cutesie" views on terrorism like a hot potato.
The enemy relishes "soft-targets" like you; philosophers so enamored of their own folly and ignorance that taking them out is scarcely a challenge.
[This message has been edited by FlyAAway (edited 10-24-2001).]
[This message has been edited by FlyAAway (edited 10-24-2001).]