Re[2]: [WW] OT America under Attack Letter

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

 >And the USA will be hard pressed to act in a rightful fashion after
 >this barbaric act. You cannot afford to strike back blindly like a
 >wild beast. This is a more or less "covert war".

Understood - one of the goals of terrorism is to create a response that is 
as destructive to the targeted government as the original attack.

But still - when there are palestinians dancing in the streets handing out 
candy - someone is going to get their ass kicked for this.

 >As a sidenote, since this is a WWII-related list, on an emotional
 >level I believe this can be related to the feeling of powerlessness
 >that common people must have felt after the Vx-attacks on London, the
 >US firebombings on Tokyo or Dresden.

I wonder if the person who initiated this knows this quote.
"I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant, and fill it with 
a desire for vengeance."
                 - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (disputed)


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