ORIGINAL: BASB
Howl me down if you please and my comment will probably cause the thread to be locked (and it probably should), but I've got big shoulders.
I wonder if ordinary people, military leaders and heads of of state would jumping up and down if the boot was on another foot and the Mossad unlawfully entered the U.S. in similar circumstances, in covert military operation to assassinate of a couple of Palestinian terrorists, probably not, would Britain, Spain or Germany unlawfully enter another European country to assassinate a Basque Separatists, IRA terrorist or Black September terrorist probably not! all these organizations have caused many deaths over the years, and sadly not only people are people around the celebrating the death of an individual, political leaders including my own Prime Minister openly condoning the deliberate killing of a human being.
What this really means is terrorism HAS WON! the Western and civilized world has stooped to the terrorists level, a sad world, I have nothing more to say on this subject, the quicker PCO and CMBN come out the better!
PS
For the record
I'm a non practicing Christian
I have more 30 years military service
More than 10 years in the justice department
and believe using all the necessary force to achieve the aim, but on the other hand I don't believe in the unnecessary celebration after the fact. ( we just need to do whats necessary and move on).
You’re ignoring one glaring fact in the equation. Let’s assume for arguments sake some radical Catholic sect began bombing civilian targets in Islamic countries and killing thousands of innocent people all in the name of their warped religious interpretations.
Now assume they hid out in any western nation you care to name to avoid repercussions for their acts by the victim Islamic nations.
The glaring fact is, without exception every single western nation would hunt down and capture or kill these individuals without any prodding at all from the victimized Islamic nations. They would then gladly extradite any surviving criminals to these Islamic nations to be held to answer for their crimes.
Now let's look at the real world again. While some of the Islamic nations these Muslim terrorists are hiding in do occasionally help our intelligence and military operations, not one of them is actively pursuing terrorists on their own accord. And none of them would do a dam thing if not for the pressure brought on them by western nations.
So we victim nations are left with very few choices, all of them bad. Do nothing and let our people die, declare war on the nations harboring the terrorists and hold them to account for their inaction, or act unilaterally and ignore the sovereignty of the nations in question.
Were Islamic nations actually concerned about the west, they’d do something about terrorism within their own borders and there would be no need for the rotten situation the world faces today. But the fact is they view these terrorists as doing Allah’s work and probably applaud their actions in private.
Jim
