From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:40d950eb$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> > You find war really terrifying because it involves more people, not because
> > it's more terrifying.
> >
>
> Not true. Which would you find more scary in your town, a single bomb
> every couple of months of so or 2 solid forces fighting for each & every
> house including yours using all the modern weaponery short of WMD?

Are you trying to prove my point? which involves more people?


> The aims & methods of political violence (& it's threat) are the same
> whether enacted by a group or a state.

or one man? (it's the "& it's threat" part I don't agree with)

As but one example, the beheadings are all over the news yet the dozens of
other murders around the globe yesterday hardly get mentioned. I mean (and
this is going to sound cold) I watch this on the news and I'm saying to
myself, big deal they killed 3 innocents, we kill more innocents by
mistake.

If what you say were true, if we were the same as terrorists, then we
wouldn't be fighting this the way we are, after the first beheading we
would have gone out into the desert near falluja and detonated a fairly
small nuclear bomb which knocked out electronics, broke windows and rattled
houses across the area and then said, are you really ready for this.. and
if they said fu then drop another on falluja and move to the next problem
area.

THAT would be state terrorism, not publishing documents that show the
limits (short of torture) that you are allowing your armed forces and
intelligence to go to. There is nothing scary about us.

Geo.

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