Posted on 06/02/2015 10:12:13 AM PDT by Teotwawki
Americans ‘overreacted’ to the 9/11 attacks, according to the newly appointed first female vice-chancellor of Oxford University. Terrorism expert Professor Louise Richardson said the 2001 atrocity provoked such a response because violent extremism was a ‘new experience’ in the US. Widespread panic ensued in America after al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger airliners and flew them into buildings, causing almost 3,000 deaths. In contrast, British citizens have shown themselves to be more ‘resilient’ in the face of terror when dealing with violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, she said.
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Comment: Yeah, and we probably overreacted to that Pearl Harbor misunderstanding too /s
someone should ask her if we overreacted when we saved their hides, twice.
We should have cut the ropes on the balloons and let the damn island sink.
I am sure the Brits would not have overreacted to German invasion forces.
IMO we didn’t “overreact” any where near enough
I think they overacted to that Dunkirk thingy.
true. if americans ran the UK, we would’ve wiped out all resistance in northern ireland after the first cafe bombing... assuming we didn’t have a prancing poofta as president
I wonder if Eleanor’s parents were related before they married...
Revisionist history
I guess us Americans are all just a bunch of morons because we expect to be safe within our own borders during peacetime.
We need to be like other countries - put up with terrorists, allow them to vent by blowing stuff up and just get used to it. Its the only way the poor terrorists can express themselves....because white privilege or something.
Neville Chamberlain
Yeah, the same Brits who collectively yawned when a Muslin sawed off the head of one of their solders on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight.
May God forbid if I ever become this “resilient”.
>>We need to be like other countries - put up with terrorists, allow them to vent by blowing stuff up and just get used to it. Its the only way the poor terrorists can express themselves....because white privilege or something.<<
You left out SUBSIDIZE THEM while they are doing all these fun activities.
So what would have been an appropriate reaction to the demolition of two skyscrapers in London and the death of nearly 3000 Brits?
The 9/11 outrage lasted a couple of weeks, the time it took to replace flying the American flag with yellow ribbons and suppressing pictures of the “jumpers.”
You knew the direction things were taking when “outrage” began being replaced with “tragedy.” The humiliation Americans go through now at domestic airports rather than the profiling done successfully by Israeli airlines mirrors our problem. Once the initial shock passes, political correctness takes over and freedom ratchets down to the next level.
I still think the proper reaction would have involved multiple nuclear weapons, but that’s just over-reaction on my part ‘cause I’m only a stupid colonial.
Dear Professor,
The Anglo Saxon vs Irish “cousin fights”, have nothing
in common with the murderous act of 9/11, in NYC.
Economically, the commodity trading pits were in the
lower accesses of The Twin Towers. Your’s are either
in London or Dublin.
Socially, the ‘cousin fight’ is a religious and political
fight of the regal governing and the subjugated.
America, as of yet, has not become a fealty, and since
your well fed posterior sits in England, you cannot
‘get’ that internal business called. The American Spirit.
The murderous act of 9/11 was performed by a theocratic
society that demands the unbelievers be put to the sword.
British regal edicts of genocide do not, and cannot
equate.
You're welcome.
Exactly!
The middle east is a bigger mess than ever because we didn’t over react ENOUGH!
Iraq, Iran and North Korea (which W identified correctly as the axis of evil) should have been wiped off the mat after 9-11. Imagine if he had done that and how much better off the world would be now if he had
Precisely. How did we overreact - there are still muzzies in this country, aren’t there? There’s even one in the wh.
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