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2011-09-08 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Sorry. I tried, but need more coffee to get all the way thru this flowery bit of frothing. However, this bit:

Theviolence of the weak cannot hope to match the vengeance of the powerful.

suggests that, just maybe, you shouldn't *bleep* with us and you might want to stop your fellow co-religionists from doing the same, non-state actors though they may be, just to prevent trouble from showing up on your doorstep unannounced in the dead of night.

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-08 09:53|| 2011-09-08 09:53|| Front Page Top

#2 More apologist crap from the wienies and hand wringing nebishes on the left. What a bunch of limp dicks.

Boo hoo, you kill 3,000 people and do almost $100 billion in damage to our economy and we are supposed to do what? Sit on our hands and invite more attacks.

This person has no understanding of the mindset of these nutjobs on the jihad trail.

Or he is trying to lay off blame on the US for the havoc that cozying up to terror breeds more terror.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-09-08 10:18|| 2011-09-08 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 A hit piece. Has ~~little~~ nothing to do with reality.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-09-08 11:22|| 2011-09-08 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Blame the 9/11 victims crap. Screw this misguided writer.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-09-08 11:24|| 2011-09-08 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 After the sentence, I stopped reading. Not even worthy of further comment.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-08 11:27|| 2011-09-08 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 To the author of this piece of sh*t:

FOAD

Posted by Barbara 2011-09-08 12:05|| 2011-09-08 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 The aftermath -- as western commentators, barring a few honourable exceptions, will no doubt neglect to note this week -- has literally been a hundred times worse.

Check with the Japanese or Germans to find out how much higher that multiple can go. And think twice before you mess with us again.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-09-08 12:20|| 2011-09-08 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 The entire arab world is in tatters.
All the dictators in the region are either dead or on the run.
Massive social unrest, food and water shortages, disease and pestilence.
There is a lesson to be learned here.

Don't f*ck with us again.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2011-09-08 13:02|| 2011-09-08 13:02|| Front Page Top

#9 The aftermath has only been a hundred times worse?

We're getting soft.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-09-08 14:19|| 2011-09-08 14:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Note that this piece was published in Dawn, the English-language "newspaper of record" for Pakistan. So this is a Pakistani perspective, not a Western lefty one.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-08 16:00|| 2011-09-08 16:00|| Front Page Top

#11 So this is a Pakistani perspective, not a Western lefty one.

A point worth noting and yet another reason to read the 'Burg. However, a cynical person might wonder if there were a nanogram of difference between the two.

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-08 16:26|| 2011-09-08 16:26|| Front Page Top

#12 However, a cynical person might wonder if there were a nanogram of difference between the two.

Hey, for alittle charge of your cynicism batteries go Check out the 9/11 op/ed's at HuffPo - all of them. It's as if they used the exact same script as this guy.

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-09-08 16:56|| 2011-09-08 16:56|| Front Page Top

#13 There are lessons that might be learned. If you kill Americans, they spend trillions to make war. Not the war of adventure, like waving a sword and riding out of the desert on a camel, but the war of hell in your house, your fields, your cities,your country and lots of dead kinsmen.

Posted by whatadeal 2011-09-08 20:50|| 2011-09-08 20:50|| Front Page Top

#14 but the war of hell in your house, your fields, your cities,your country and lots of dead kinsmen.

When does that start? It's been 10 years and folks are betting bored.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-08 21:02|| 2011-09-08 21:02|| Front Page Top

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