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Originally Posted by daswig
Harry, what was the first true terrorist attack "caused" by our position on Israel on US soil? The first one I can remember was the assassination of RFK by Sirhan Sirhan. That kind of predates all of the recent unpleasantness. We've tried everything short of abandoning Israel to the "tender mercies" of the Arab world. We've tried bringing them to the peace table, we've tried sending in peacekeepers, we've tried just about every option out there, and they STILL keep killing Americans. At some point, we have to say "enough's enough", and just kick the shit out of them, so that they no longer view us as an "easy target", but rather look at us with fear. Better they not want to attack us out of fear of our reprisals than feel free to keep attacking us out of amusement of our lack of will to force them to comply. Warfare is politics carried to the extreme.
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well, by your definition, any assination is a terrorist attack. i have a hard time calling RFK that. how many terrorist attacks can you think of between then and when the WTC had the garage blown up? i personally can't think of any. that might be my age showing, as i was still in high school when that happened, but can't remember any others. never heard them being mentioned when talking about terrorism either. my point is, that until OBL got his grudge against america (which by all accounts i've heard is mainly because of the US military presence on Saudi soil, although now that we have pulled out of there, i'm sure he's got other reasons to keep up the fight, like, oh, i don't, iraq?) we weren't a target. they may not have liked us, but they weren't trying to kill us either.
and to repeat something i said in a different thread a while back...
your paper tiger wants steak, and all it got was iraq.
(translation, if you don't want us to seem like a paper tiger, take on a country with a real military that's a real threat)