Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Terror
From: "Alan Hull" <hull@telia.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:14:34 +0200
References: <200109122243.SAA23152@newman.concentric.net>

I believe that this discussion is the most important discussion this group
has ever engaged in.  This is life and death, and ALL means to dissuade the
US and NATO from blindly lashing out with knee-jerk anger should be used.

Please Please Please, cut through the grief and somehow touch base with
humanity and try to understand that the white hot hatred that drives suicide
bombers will not be cured by a military response.  If your anger is so
intense that you are unable to touch this base then use cold hearted logic
and realise that if the US and NATO escalate this event then the next time
the bombers strike it could be nuclear.  Solve the root problem, and this
type of terrorism will go away

I sincerely hope that my contribution to this topic has not lowered the high
standard of debate that has taken place here.  I do not have the education
to take this discussion further.  I have spent nine years in the British
military during a time when the primary enemy were terrorists from Northern
Ireland, Malaysia, Borneo, Kenya and the Yemen.  I look at my four year old
daughter now and shudder with fear for her.

Quote from the URL below from Jim Muir of the BBC.
The fact is that for more than five decades, in defiance of countless UN
resolutions and of international law, the Palestinians' land has been
occupied and their rights ignored by Israel, with full diplomatic cover and
open-ended financial and military backing from Washington
End of Quote

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1540000/1540364.st
m

Alan

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