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Originally Posted by Webby
Terrorism is nothing new RH - the US "discovered" it on 9/11 and then proceeded to forget who committed that offense and elected to have a war with Iraq instead and kill far more innocent people than were ever killed on 9/11.
The Basques in Spain (ETA etc) have been committing "terrorist acts" since Roman times, the IRA have been doing the same. Both of them consider they have a "cause" - and looking at history, they sure do. Blowing up non-military targets and innocent people can't get sympathy for any cause that may have existed.
There are literally 1000's of "orgs" of people who feel they have been dumped upon and, often justifiably, they get pissed. Fortunately the majority don't blow people up to make a point.
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I don't know too much about the IRA and the Basques........ But there are some basic things I fail to understand. Here in the US we have a group of peple called the Amish. No other modern day group of people is stranger; They live without and electricity, cars, etc.... pretty much live as they did over a century ago. Yet these people are indeed Americans and live peacefully here. They don't go around blowing people up trying to get their own country started. I don't know the details of the IRA and the and Basque, but why can't they just accept that their hosts aren't going to give them what they want.
In the Middle East it's about Isreal. Isreal is never going to leave. It's unheard of for a modern day country the size of Isreal to just disolve itself and move to a different place. It's never going to happen.