Originally Posted by downquark1

Bear in mind I'm only trying to understand the terrorist mind, not agree with him. But I don't think they said 'hey let's go blow up children'. The idea is to get attention, what better than to aim a populated area in a busy period. I don't think children in particular had any part in their thinking.

Originally Posted by towny

I don't know whether I am saddened or sickened by this. What I am sure of is that your reputation, as far as I'm concerned, should not be green. :(

Originally Posted by Jerrek

It is so funny how you call it "illegal," as if there is some law regarding war.

Originally Posted by scastle

True, the Media do tend to play up the death of Children. Children do seem to be more important to this society than adults.

However, if the IRA bombs either a shopping centre or a major department store (especially at Christmas), it is a fair bet they were aiming to hurt some kids, is it not?

Originally Posted by downquark1

I call it a diabolical act of terriorism perpatrated by people who feel they have been driven to such measures or conditioned to do so.

Oh and add to my list of reasons for opinion:
The us seek immunity from warcrimes. If no crimes are commited why do they need immunity

Originally Posted by Ramrod

I was rather hoping drwadd would answer that one but he seems to be ignoring it....
Here's a thought: If I was cut up on a road by another car and insulted by the other driver even though it was his fault, would it be reasonable for me to go round to his place and kill his dog and put a brick through his window?
Not really....so why is it deemed reasonable by some members of this forum that terorists fly planes into buildings because they are pi**ed off with the USA?

Originally Posted by handyman

This is drawing away from the topic at question which is anti-american views.

No one is doubting that acts of terroism involving bombs in public places will cause loss of life indiscriminatly and those involved should be hung. Maybe these views warrant a thread on thier own to be discussed.

Originally Posted by downquark1

I don't deem it reasonable I deem it to have a reason - valid or not it's there.

Me and Dr. Wadd seem to be the only people who see things in shades of grey rather than Black and white. It is obvious that to some people it seems reasonable because it actually happened - ie by the people who saw reason. Reason is relative, one person's is different from the others. I do not think that terriorists are the Devil incarnate that people are making them out to be, they are severly misguided people

Originally Posted by Ramrod

I was rather hoping drwadd would answer that one but he seems to be ignoring it....
Here's a thought: If I was cut up on a road by another car and insulted by the other driver even though it was his fault, would it be reasonable for me to go round to his place and kill his dog and put a brick through his window?
Not really....so why is it deemed reasonable by some members of this forum that terorists fly planes into buildings because they are pi**ed off with the USA?

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

yes and as the IRA considered it a war then isnt that a war crime to target civilians - geneva convention 4.

Originally Posted by Jerrek

Israel is the same. They don't target civilians.

Originally Posted by dr wadd

Some of us simply aren`t sitting on the forum 24/7.

I don`t think you'll find anyone has said it was reasonable, merely that it was undertandable why someone would do it.

As Downquark pointed out, you can't look at the world in absolutes, there is no black & white, it is all shades of grey. You can`t look at an event without examining the wider context behind the event. The inability to see events from someone else's point of view is symptomatic of the arrogant attitude of some that we are somehow the good guys and they are the evil enemy. It's all cause and effect, and these are merely the effects of the actions of the west. It is time that people started examining the attitudes of the west in the context of the world as a whole.