What Separates The U.S. From The Terrorist Nations Of The World?

Toogood Reports ^ | Weekender, November 2-4, 2001 | Lee R. Shelton IV

[dirtboy]

So, just what exactly is it that separates the United States from the terrorist nations of the world? Maybe the answer is more elusive than we care to admit.

Easy. We have folks doing their best to come here. Very few people want to move to the terrorist countries. People vote with their feet. Typically, this columnist focuses on the scattered warts of America instead of the virtues.

[an amused spectator]

to Lee R. Shelton IV:

These are specious arguments not worth responding to.

[gcruse]

Starmaker posts but never replies. Everything I have seen is from toogood reports. What we have here is a shill for another web site.

[KC_Conspirator]

These are silly and sophomoric arguments, mired in intellectual laziness, are not worth dignifying with a response. Who writes this crap anyway?

[ex-snook]

"So, just what exactly is it that separates the United States from the terrorist nations of the world? "

I think it goes like this. A matter of definitions. If you carry explosives on bombers or missiles that is not terrorism. If they use cars or people to carry explosives, that's terrorism. Also our dead are 'innocent civilians' enemy dead is 'collateral damage'. I hope that clears it up.

Forget the 'we good - them bad' word games, get bin Laden, then over and out for good. George Washington was right.

[ohioman]

This is an article to be ignored. Out of 280 Million people, we are bound to have millions of idiots. Thank God that this guy only represents the fringe minority.

[dead]

Can anyone make the case that the conflicts we saw in places like Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia had anything to do with protecting the freedom of American citizens?

Yes. Yes. No. Yes. No. No. No.

[1L]

What Separates The U.S. From The Terrorist Nations Of The World? This question will be construed by many to be unpatriotic, un-American, and simply uncalled for.

While it is un-American (unpatriotic is redundant), the question is also stupid.

[Billthedrill]

There are those on the right as well as on the left who deliberately fog the differences between the two sides, in order to establish a moral relativism that fits their own unrelated political agendas. This case doesn't really lend itself very well to that technique, and this author looks as silly as the mullah yesterday who claimed that the U.S. deserved it because of slavery.

It wasn't the fact that the media gave us pictures of an airliner hitting a building that has us upset, it was the act itself! For the truly obtuse this is a difficult concept; for the rest of us it isn't very hard at all. This isn't a matter of perception, it's one of fact.

[JIM O]

"Why? Because we are currently attacking another nation for carrying out acts of mass destruction that pale in comparison to what we ourselves have done."

What a loser

[toenail]

We keep our terrorism behind closed doors. See? (RealVideo)

[11th Earl of Mar]

If you carry explosives on bombers or missiles that is not terrorism. If they use cars or people to carry explosives, that's terrorism. Also our dead are 'innocent civilians' enemy dead is 'collateral damage'. I hope that clears it up.

Thank you Osama bin Snook.

[TheOtherOne]

click on his profile and then "find in forum"find in forum" your are dead right, all thread posts from Togwood Reports

[gedeon3]

We will kill them, and kill them, and kill them, and continue to kill them. The only sad part of it is, that by doing so we are also protecting ignorant cowards like you. You cannot tell the difference (or pretend not to), between an act aiming at killing thousands of civilians, and bombing terrorist bases.

[veryconernedamerican]

that response is crap, terrorism is outside of war, directed at civilians, non military, this argument is the worst logic i have seen, and not well thought out. the only damage a terrorist causes is collateral and they make no attempt to spare innocents on the contrary they target them, if on the other hand america targeted in this way, there would be millions dead right now. These guys hide their troops and weapons in civilian areas in order to maximize civilian deaths in their own land.

[gedeon3]

What else can we expect from traitors and cowards?

[veryconernedamerican]

something tells me exsnook is not from the same country as us, and has a much different agenda.

[ThreeOfSeven]

Below, extracted from Executive Order 13224, is the official definition of terrorism. Make what you will of it.

(d) the term "terrorism" means an activity that

(i) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and

(ii) appears to be intended

(A) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

(B) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or

(C) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.