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From: Eeyore on 4 Oct 2006 17:00 T Wake wrote: > "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:30:52 +0100, Eeyore wrote: > >>Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: > >>> T Wake wrote: > >>> > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote > > >>> >> Is Hezbollah a terrorist organisation ? > >>> > > >>> > If you are asking my opinion..... then yes. A nasty, ruthless one. > >>> > However sometimes terrorists seem to come in from the cold. > >>> > >>> That's the point at which they've won. > >> > >>Looks like they won in that case. > > > > --- > > A skirmish, perhaps, but not the war. > > Surely though, at that point the "war" is over. Would the IDF try it on again I ask myself ? Graham
From: T Wake on 4 Oct 2006 17:01 "Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:9QUUg.51429$E67.13495(a)clgrps13... > > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message > news:WMqdnbTXkMryjbnYRVnyvw(a)pipex.net... > >>> I'm saying that if someone threatens their fundamental freedoms, the >>> British public will defend them. >> >> Hopefully. >> >> I grow less and less sure of this as I watch public debate each day. > > A mistake Hitler made. He read reports of pacifist debates in the UK and > assumed they were a guide to the lack of response to be expected during an > attack on Britain. > > The British Air Force response showed him the error of his ways. > Yes, but we are not the generation of seventy years ago. It is not a case of reading reports of pacifist beliefs - currently we are willing to surrender basic freedoms all to "Prevent Terrorism." I have no doubt the British people are as warlike as they were in the fifth century. I do, however, doubt how wedded we are as a society to the fundamental freedoms we grew up with. (Stop and search, ID cards etc).
From: T Wake on 4 Oct 2006 17:01 "Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:aQUUg.51430$E67.36132(a)clgrps13... > > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message > news:SvCdnW6IaZ6XjrnYnZ2dnUVZ8qKdnZ2d(a)pipex.net... > >> Do any countries see themselves as backward? (Or any countries see them >> selves as not "modern") > > Not Kazakhstan it seems! > LOL.
From: T Wake on 4 Oct 2006 17:02 "Kurt Ullman" <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:kurtullman-0A2CEC.16092504102006(a)customer-201-125-217-207.uninet.net.mx... > In article <GbCdndSLQptNj7nYRVnygw(a)pipex.net>, > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >> >> >> I am often amused by the number of people here in the UK who sing the >> praises of [Insert Country], yet would never consider going and living >> there >> for the rest of their lives. > > Why? Different set of thoughts behind liking some place and actually > wanting to live there. I like England, but have no particular desire to > uproot family and stay there. Heck I like Chicago, but same principle > and a LOT closer. I was slightly subdued with the "sing the praises" of. If you spent your day waving placards outside the Whitehouse saying how great the UK was and how all Americans should live like that the analogy would make more sense.
From: Gordon on 4 Oct 2006 17:03
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:04:18 GMT, "Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > >"Gordon" <gordonlr(a)DELETEswbell.net> wrote in message >news:mv38i29lpc9s9sshrkdrbpgramufns6jn4(a)4ax.com... > >>>9/11 was Bush's failure. >>> >> How long had Bush been in office when 9/11 occurred? Who was in >> office the 8 years before that? > >Right. Sure. Any successes Bush has had (have there been any?) are totally >his own. All failures are the fault of the previous administration. > >Isn't that one of the three biggest lies? > Slight correction...any successes (or failures) Bush had within the first few months are likely linked to the former administration, but that doesn't extend more than a year or so, in most instances. Gordon |