remember 1989-90?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well, actually the current 'terrorism' was mostly created by cold-war policies.

Prove it

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Good lord, man, we meddled in the middle east, and were rightly resented for it, and then some of the most extreme resenters knocked down a couple of buildings. 

Are you trying to sound like a crude and very cruel caricature of the worst kind of ignorant rent-a-quote anti-american leftist?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Good lord, man, we meddled in the middle east, and were rightly resented for it, and then some of the most extreme resenters knocked down a couple of buildings. 

Didn't spot that bit before. Sicko.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Just putting things in perspective.

Thousands of people DIED in a pretty horrible way

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well, whilst impersonal, he's correct, Al.

It is never correct to refer to the deaths of thousands of people as "knocked down a couple of buildings"

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The deaths of thousands of insects everyday are usually described as "birds circling"...

So?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Just pointing out that, in either case, either statement is "correct". Whether it's wise to refer to events in that matter, what it tells about the speaker, etc, is a different matter of course.

I meant correct as in "is correct behavior to say x". Calling someone of Pakistani origin a "paki" is "correct" in one sense; it clearly isn't in the other sense.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No doubt, but the only reason we hear so much about it is they were americans.  Thousands of foreigners die in horrible ways all the time, sometimes at american hands, and of course we hear nothing about it.

Um... you know what news is, right? Most stuff gets reported; not always enough but it gets reported.

Sure, 9/11 was covered a lot in the U.S because it happend in the U.S (the victims came from a lot of different countries though) but that's entirely understandable surely? And anyway, if a plane had been crashed into (say) the Kremlin I *think* it would have got a lot of coverage, don't you?

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