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Friday, August 11, 2006 12:00 AM

What America doesn't understand

Homegrown U.K. terror is a growing threat, multicultural "tolerance" can't combat it, and the war in Iraq will only make it worse.
By Andrew Brown

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  • Friday, August 11, 2006 01:59 PM

    re: I need to go read up on the particulars of the 07/11 bombers ... it's very easy to lose sight of the fact that "terrorists" are people too, hopes and fears, put their trousers on one leg at a time, people who chose to make waging war their life's work -- why? yes, there are a million stories in the naked city ...

    the same could be said about:

    rapists and klansmen and gangbangers and killers and crack dealers and child pornographers and facists and racists and pedophiles and...

    some folks are not worth understanding: the London bombers lose all right to dialog and empathy once they murder innocents for political gain - and until the left gets this, Bush and Blair and Olmert will continue to ridicule and beat you...

    —jeffrey

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