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Thursday, January 25, 2007

A Clarion Call - Dr. Rice, Listen Back to Our Friends and Allies

The only thing to add is that someone needs to make sure that Senator Lindsey Graham gets the message, loud and clear:

"It is critical that we understand that this new form of terrorism carries another more subtle, perhaps equally pernicious, risk. Because it might encourage a fear-driven and inappropriate response. By that I mean it can tempt us to abandon our values. I think it important to understand that this is one of its primary purposes...

London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, 'soldiers'. They were deluded, narcissistic inadequates. They were criminals. They were fantasists. We need to be very clear about this. On the streets of London, there is no such thing as a 'war on terror', just as there can be no such thing as a 'war on drugs'.

The fight against terrorism on the streets of Britain is not a war. It is the prevention of crime, the enforcement of our laws and the winning of justice for those damaged by their infringement," - Britain's director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald.


See Sir Michael Howard, What's In A Name?: How to Fight Terrorism, in links section of my other, here, from 2001.



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