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BILL BLUM, ANTI-EMPIRE REPORT - Our much-esteemed leader and his
equally-esteemed acolytes continue to use the same argument in order to
deflect attention from their deformed child, the War On Terror -- the
argument being that since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, US
counterterrorism policy has worked. How do they know? Because there
haven't been any terrorist attacks in the United States in the six years
since that infamous day.
Right, but there weren't any terrorist attacks in the United States in
the six years before Sept. 11, 2001 either, the last one being the
Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, with no known connection to al
Qaeda. The absence of terrorist attacks in the US appears to be the
norm, with or without a War on Terror.
More significantly, in the six years since 9-11 the United States has
been the target of terrorist attacks on scores of occasions, not even
counting anything in Iraq or Afghanistan -- attacks on military,
diplomatic, civilian, Christian, and other targets associated with the
United States, in the Middle East, South Asia and the Pacific, more than
a dozen times in Pakistan alone. The attacks include the October 2002
bombings of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, which killed more than
200 people, almost all of them Americans and citizens of their
Australian and British war allies; the following year brought the heavy
bombing of the US-managed Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, the site
of diplomatic receptions and 4th of July celebrations held by the
American Embassy; and other horrendous attacks in more recent years on
US allies in Madrid and London because of the war.
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer48.htm
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BILL BLUM, ANTI-EMPIRE REPORT - Our much-esteemed leader and his
equally-esteemed acolytes continue to use the same argument in order to
deflect attention from their deformed child, the War On Terror -- the
argument being that since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, US
counterterrorism policy has worked. How do they know? Because there
haven't been any terrorist attacks in the United States in the six years
since that infamous day.
Right, but there weren't any terrorist attacks in the United States in
the six years before Sept. 11, 2001 either, the last one being the
Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, with no known connection to al
Qaeda. The absence of terrorist attacks in the US appears to be the
norm, with or without a War on Terror.
More significantly, in the six years since 9-11 the United States has
been the target of terrorist attacks on scores of occasions, not even
counting anything in Iraq or Afghanistan -- attacks on military,
diplomatic, civilian, Christian, and other targets associated with the
United States, in the Middle East, South Asia and the Pacific, more than
a dozen times in Pakistan alone. The attacks include the October 2002
bombings of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, which killed more than
200 people, almost all of them Americans and citizens of their
Australian and British war allies; the following year brought the heavy
bombing of the US-managed Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, the site
of diplomatic receptions and 4th of July celebrations held by the
American Embassy; and other horrendous attacks in more recent years on
US allies in Madrid and London because of the war.
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer48.htm
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