What is your view?

Milan   Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:36 pm GMT
"We must try to find ways to starve the terrorism and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend".....By Margaret Thatcher, 15 july, 1985

Milan
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Uriel   Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:21 am GMT
On the one hand, it sounds very true -- the business of terrorism is to make a big splash. If they don't, who's going to be terrified? The point of having victims is not just to torment the victims themselves, but to use the example of that torment to strike fear into a much larger group of people -- an audience. Without publicity, well, the only people they struck fear into are the victimes themselves, who are probably now dead.....

On the other hand, if you deny terrorists the sensationalist thrill of an audience's reaction, they may just try to do it bigger and better the next time .... Let's face it, no one paid any attention to Al Qaeda when they were just blowing a hole in the hull of some naval ship in a foreign harbor. We all forgot about the USS Cole about a week later -- after all, it was a military target, sitting in not-so-friendly waters -- it was hardly a shock. But blowing up two or three big buildings on national television -- now that spawned some talk around the water cooler!
Guest   Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:53 am GMT
Unrelated to linguistics. Delete.
JohnnyC   Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:15 am GMT
Milan is a filthy Guinea crackwhore. Delete. Go back to Italy and let the gypsies eat your uncircumcized children.
Guest   Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:29 am GMT
My view is the same as that of the previous two posters. Delete this worthless spam thread.
Guest   Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:54 am GMT
<<Milan is a filthy Guinea crackwhore. Delete. Go back to Italy and let the gypsies eat your uncircumcized children.>>

Nah... Send her to Australia and let dingoes eat her babies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain_disappearance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingoes_Ate_My_Baby
Guest   Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:20 pm GMT
Thanks guys.