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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (21757)	3/16/2003 4:39:46 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Maurice Winn replies (over at FADG)~~~~ <Please show me any terror incident that compares with 9 / 11. > Hiroshima. That certainly terrorized a lot of Japanese and got them to surrender really quickly. It made 911 look like a skyrocket. If there had been live television at the time, the horror would have been far worse than that of 911. But 911 was several 'incidents'. That's according to the lease-holder of the Twin Towers anyway - claimed for insurance purposes. So each incident wasn't really that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Another terrorist incident which compares with the 911 attacks was the sinking and killing of one person in the Rainbow Warrior by the French terrorist state of Mitterrand [now thankfully dead - good riddance, though unfortunately, not all the attackers are]. The suffering of each person is what matters. Any attack on an individual creates suffering for that person, whether another 10, 100, 1000 or million also suffer the same. So, in that sense, terrorist attacks are equivalent as far as innocent victims are concerned. A child with skin falling off at the edge of the furnace in Hiroshima probably suffered as much as those with seared skin who jumped from the top of the Twin Towers, but suffered longer. Yes, yes, Japan started it. Well, who started it often gets lost in the mists of time. The wacko Jews go back 2000 years and babble on about some promised land as though they still have a title deed from then from some supernatural spook. The Palestinians can go back a fair way too. So can we all. The question is how to resolve it to stop the blood feud. Mqurice