Posted on 08/12/2006 5:21:50 AM PDT by rellimpank
Nearly five years after 9/11, some people still don't know what hit the United States, or why. If you doubt it, consider the reaction to what could have been a second 9/11-sized slaughter - one that was averted only through the vigilance of British officials and the arrest of at least 41 suspected terrorists this week. Even in Britain, some commentators lost no time in blaming . . . well, let the Daily Telegraph, which was typical in this regard, speak in its own words:
"The global loathing for the United States and its ally, the United Kingdom, has helped corrupt the minds of a generation of disaffected young Muslims," the paper argued, "a process speeded by extremist clerics .
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
I was talking to a Brit this morning about the big plot in Great Brittain. He's decided that the fact that one of the people arrested has been released means all are innocent. He also calls it "an interesting coincidence" that Tony Blair was out of the country at the time.
Nutjob liberals are the same the world over.
"People who write and say such things can't possibly believe that jihadist terror is the product of 4 1/2 years of war waged by the United States in Afghanistan and then Iraq"
Oh yeah, they do.
How about "Unassimilated Muslims whose parents, peers, and imams teach them nothing but hatred, and a media who elevates them to victimhood status is the true cause of terror," but , naw! the msm would never get it that straight, would they?
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