AMERICA'S REVENGE HAS STARTED!

by nicolaou 85 Replies latest jw friends

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  nicolaou

  You may well be right COMF.

  These are hardly 'ordinary times' and I may well have over reacted -- not a very sensible thing to do.

  However, the Newsnight programme I'm listening to is describing this attack on Kabul as a "strike-back".

  The discussion is currently centred on the possible repurcussions the USA may be faced with should this prove to be a presumptuous attack - especially if there should be civilian casualites!

  One panelist has commented on how often in the last 8 hours the US has been referred to as a 'sleeping giant'. He has expressed concern over the anger with which the giant may strike.

  Perhaps, in my choice of title for this thread, I could have been less alarmist - but these are certainly alarming times.

  Nic'

  . http://jw.escape.to
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  conflicted

  CNN, and ABC news report that missile attacks in Kabul are results of the civil war occuring in Afghanistan. This is NOT United States retaliation.
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  COMF

  Alarming, true enough. When I heard about the first plane this morning, the second one had not hit and there was no news of the other strikes. All we knew was the one plane had hit the tower. And I said to myself immediately, "That's not the end of it. It's the tip of an iceberg."

  COMF
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  nicolaou

  Just heard that the Whitehouse has denied responsibility for the attacks on Kabul.

  However, as COMF correctly points out this is just "the tip of an iceberg".

  It would be nice to think that the suffering and death that has been meted out today could have a line drawn under it - that retaliation and revenge would not be resorted to as this is ultimately a self-defeating and self-perpetuating course of action.

  But of course it WILL happen.

  If the last half hour was a 'false alarm' you can be sure that at some point in the days or weeks to come, Bush will launch the 'real offensive'.

  I can't bring myself to condone it but, in view of everything I've seen and heard today, the raw human in me, the protective father and husband in me can just about understand the desire for it.

  Right or wrong, revenge will come.

  Nic'

  . http://jw.escape.to
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  waiting

  Payback is hell.
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  Naeblis

  True COMF, but the Klan is not funded and sheltered by Alabama. There is a difference and it is a big one. This is really a no win for the U.S. On one hand, they have to respond with force to show these groups they will not be take this lying down..but this will foster more hate. But if they are weak in their response it will send a message that the US is ripe for the picking.
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  logical

  COMF

  Twice in one day I have agreed with you totally. Something must be going on.
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  COMF

  And I posted you a feel-good song the other day when you felt bad... Scary, ain't it, logi!

  COMF
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  FiveShadows

  oh my god...am i the only freaking person in the world that's looking at this and saying "USA is involved in this just as much as anyone else?" lets think about this for a moment:

  If i was a terrorist...and i wanted to hurt the enemy where it would hurt them the most...would i attack their sky scraper buildings? or would i crash my plane right into the heart of the country's capital? right into where the president or leader lives? Come on people...terrorists are NOT that stupid...i'd attack the white house before anything else....this has NWO written ALL over it..the next thing we're probably gonna be hearing about is "please line up to get your microchip so we know you're not a terrorists" This is a huge secret society conspiracy, where the USA is invovled. If you honestly believe that the USA is innocnet in regards all this...god think again. Flighter pilates are being drafted now on such sudden notice? How would they know within a few hours who's the enemy? This is just another "hey we're gonna go to war so economy can rise and diverte the attention of the citizens of the USA away from the NWO that's creeping up behind them." I was watching news the other day and the newsman made an interesting comment that my roommate and i just busted up laughing because we knew it was all a conspiracy. he said something like "yes we're trading with (blah country) with our oil who at the same time we're bombing"

  Man i woke up and turned on the TV and something told me "the USA is just as invovled in this as anyone else..don't be so shocked" ...and i'm sorry but...this is so stupid...how stupid does the US think us american citizens are? Look if you're superficial with the USA government and think they're the best government in the world and that no matter what i'm insulting you by saying this and on top of which they would never kill their own citizens...i'm sorry i pity you for your innocense. I mean no disrespect towards anyone ...however i'm sorry this is just pathetically obvious ...the US is invovled.

  FiveShadows
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  Naeblis

  Umm...right. The U.S bombed its own FINANCIAL sector to help the economy.

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