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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (252749)5/3/2002 5:39:20 PM
From: Mr. Whist  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
Re: "They didn't divert plutonium from facilities in Kazakhastan, and attempt to learn how to put a bomb together. They did not have millions of dollars to search for the right kind of black market chemical or biological agents to take out a whole medium sized city. They did not come to America's shores and destroy important public buildings. The analogy is phony."

Technological advances don't alter the prevailing psychological reasons for terrorists to act as they do, even though, in this case, the separation on a timeline is two centuries. There are indeed strong similarities between the Barbary pirates and al-Qaida.

(By the way, one also could use your line of reasoning to argue for doing away with the Second Amendment.)
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