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SubjectRe: Clobberin' Time...
Fromsdtilson@NewsReader.com
Date09/18/2001 17:31 (09/18/2001 17:31)
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FollowsJames Trory
James Trory <j_trory@yahoo.com>wrote:

James Trory
We've secretly replaced the Pacific Ocean with Folgers crystals. Let's see if Cryofax notices:

Cryofax
James Trory <j_trory@yahoo.com>wrote in message

James Trory
This is all just revenge talk and not constructive. You cannot fight terrorism like that.

Cryofax
Well I guess since the bombing of Pearl Harbor spurred us to WWII that entire conflict was "revenge" and not constructive? If striking back after an enemy attack is "revenge" then I guess it is revenge.

James Trory
The attack on Pearl Harbour was not a terrorist one. WW2 had been going on for two years before Japan attacked the US. The United States should've joined the effort before that attack, it's just that the American government is very good at ignoring things until they affect them. It's the same case with terrorism.

Actually, the US had already been sending equipment and pilots to assist the British by this point. There weren't any troops on the ground yet primarily because it was the American *people* (not the govt. -- FDR was trying his best to get us into the war) who were isolationist. (In other words, we kept out of everybody else's business, as we are asked to do now.)

My question to you know, having corrected you, is why has America not stepped in before to "level some Irish cities"? If that's the right thing to be doing, as President Bush appears to be stating.

Probably because the Irish haven't blown up the World Trade Center lately.

Steve Tilson

-- "We will never forgive and never forget. And never ever fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets." - THE CROW by James O'Barr