Here is a nice example of "jihadist" from today's Guardian:
>>"London is easily the most jihadist hub in western Europe," Roger
Cressy, a former White House counterterrorism official, told the Los
Angeles Times.
[...] In the Wall Street Journal, the former head of the State
Department's counter-terrorism centre, Larry Johnson, said Britain had
been too squeamish about respecting Muslims' rights. As a result, argues
Peter Bergen, a fellow of the New America Foundation, British Muslims
pose "one of the greatest terrorist threats to the United States" [....]
So entrenched is the British capital as an outpost of the Muslim
diaspora, that London is now commonly referred to as "Londonistan" - a
word used several times in different papers.<<
So Britain is now a big part of the problem for the US. Tony must look
to his laurels. *1984*, anyone?
mj
Lawrence Upton wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:59 PM
>Subject: Re: Robert Kagan on military power and perception
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>>Well, I guess I would make a good Dalek.
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>Only you would know. It never occurred to me.
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>>I consider "the war on terror" a misnomer, for the reasons I gave
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>earlier. But if its "premise" is that there is a difference between
>regular warfare and the ideological terrorism of the jihadists,
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>I am not sure there is anything identifiable as "regular warfare" tho I can
>imagine Bush saying that
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>"jihadists? one up on towelheads to me
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>It's more the them and us structure I deny
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>sure there is a difference otherwise, the main one that in what you call
>regular warfare, we do it to them
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>if youre in baghdad & a _precision guided weapon_ falls on your house it's
>probably much the same as being on that bus in tavistock sq
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>and some hypocrite in london or washington saying ah the difference is we
>dont like doing it makes no difference, makes it worse to me
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> > which seems commonsensical to me.
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>it always does, and so the suffering has continued
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>>But while we can and should stop doing
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>some of the fouler things we do, we can't actually stop responding, go
>back to sleep and pretend the bombs were meant for someone else.
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>well i dont think i proposed any of that
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>>We
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>have many things to be ashamed of; but the terrorist bombs are not our
>long-overdue punishment for those things; and we shouldn't let our
>desire for punishment overwhelm our instinct for self-preservation.
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>nor that
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>so i wont waste breath answering them
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>all best
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>L
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--
M.J.Walker - no webpage, no blogspot, no idea -
nobody dies, 'nothing happens', we call it music,
it is time rushing past the shabby portals of our ear
and I am just a terrible mistake.
Robert Kelly
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