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I remember after September 11th, there was a lot of "Us too!" going on in the world [...]yet somehow these attacks never materialised.
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But there was the Madrid train bomb? And the explosion in Bali? Maybe they didn't involve planes, but that doesn't diminish from the fact that they happened. |
"Maybe they didn't involve planes" is exactly the point!
These were "conventional" bomb attacks, yet everyone was throwing masses of money at preventing another September 11th.
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By the rule of law, based on the principles of human rights and justice.
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Sadly the weakness of that argument is that those of whom you talk do not base their actions the principles of human rights and justice.
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No, actually that's the *strength* of that argument, ie that we will *not* be forced to dance to the terrorists' tune by throwing away our principles and rights because they are suddenly "inconvenient"!
That is what *makes* us civilised.
If we have to become what we hate in order to destroy it, we have *LOST*.