> "Spectacular terrorist attacks." Well, there was the fire-bombing of
> Tokyo. There was the thousand-plane raid on Hamburg that dropped most of
> their bombs on residential neighborhoods. There was the levelling of
> every building in NOrth Korea and then more bombing of the rubble. There
> was the the subversion of the government of Mossedgh, which was the
> begining of all of this. There was the Christmas Bombing of Vietnam.
> There there was some relatively amateur terror attacks earlier that were
> still pretty spectacular: Guerinica, Rotterdam, the bombing of London.
> When "international Terrorism"begins to mount up casualty figures of
> this magnitude I will stop laughing at such schoolboy exaggeration as
> "spectacular terror attacks" in reference to such penny-ante stuff as
> 911 or the London subway.
>
Why don't you save up these self-righteous lectures for someone who doesn't already know all this?
SA