IRA Attacks worse than 9/11 attack

[03Fox2/1]

I take great exception to the following article published yesterday by the Associated Press. Actually, I take great offense at the article, both content and intent, and the position by Doris Lessing is I believe one that is both misguided and arrogrant. I don't for a minute believe that America is naive, or pretends to be. Isn't she comparing apples to oranges ? The violence in Northern Ireland and the attacks against the Crown in England and the attacks against the World Trade Center, both on February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001 are all acts of terrorism. And, on 9/11, it wasn't only attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon was successfully attacked and the White House was the intended target for the third aircraft.
And when it comes to standing up for freedom and fighting either the Communists then or international terrorism now, are we not at the forefront ? Many of us in America lost our innocence in VietNam and I assure you, our eyes are very wide open when it comes to fighting international terrorism.
Semper Fi


From Associated Press:
10-23-2007


"LESSING Says IRA Attacks Were Worse Than 9/11"

Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were "not that terrible" when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain.
"September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible," the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the Spanish daily EL Pais.
"Some Americans will think I'm crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she said.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks. About 3,700 died and tens of thousands of people were maimed in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army guerrilla group disarmed in 2005.

[Drone_pilot]

WTF someone who can make two words rhyme thinks they know better than the rest of us.

All right, it was one attack but it was one of the most cowardly horrific attacks in history.

i think people like this should learn to keep there BIG MOUTHS shut untill they now what their talking about.
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[Bombardier]

Im stunned........ It is not about which is worse, like children taunting each other in the playground like Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah my terrorist attack is better than your terrorist attack. Real people died and the living had to suffer the loss of loved ones and live with the horror of their experience.

It is fundamentally wrong to compare the horror of two situations and try to make one sound like well it wasnt that bad, get a grip of yourselves.

This woman has done nothing more than show utter disrespect and contempt for the feelings not only of the USA but also the rest of the world who witnessed that attack either first hand or on the TV.

Whats more the IRA on most occasions, at least had the courtesey of giving a warning about a pending explosion, im not saying that planting a bomb is ok if you give a warning but it clearly seperates the intentions of Alqaeda and the IRA, the IRA's main intention was to disprupt the economy and slow the UK down and not IMHO just to kill innocent people. (although I agree mistakes were made in that respect)

for the record, I dont believe the US people to be naive I believe them to be, in general a shining example to the rest of the world on how the terrorist should be dealt with. I would point out though that they have made mistakes and taken decisions that I have not always agreed with but as I said, in general the American people have the right idea.

rant over

[Bombardier]

And here she is......... ( Im ashamed to discover she is British)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Doris_lessing_20060312.jpg/250px-Doris_lessing_20060312.jpg

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Nobel_laureate_Doris_Lessing:_9/11_'wasn't_that_terrible'_compared_to_IRA_attacks

[Advisor]

Faux intellectual snobbery. To quote that great American, Spiro Agnew, she is an "effete intellectual snob." Guess she doen't remember that we haven't been colonials for over 200 years.

[JoT]

Ms Lessing was a communist and allegedly still holds strong left-wing views, she is a feminist and in my opinion a serial bandwagon jumping activist.

This kind of outburst doesn't surprise me at all and shouldn't be taken seriously.

[Matzos]

As Bombardier stated, I'm stunned.

I'm taking a course in Counter-Terrorism at this present time and have just completed a module on the IRA.

They are terrorists, there is no way of getting away from that fact, but to say that they were worse that Al Qaeda who undertook 9/11, sorry she's talking out of her A**E.

Al Qaeda, target mass numbers for the biggest impact for their cause, that is a total and world-wide Islamic stated. They give no warnings and have no regards to who they kill, men, women or children and even Muslims they see as enemies of Islam who side with the USA, UK and their allies.

The IRA, what ever form they were at the time, PIRA, CIRA, RIRA, their cause was the removal of the British rule from Northern Ireland and the joining of the two states into one Irish Nation. Knowing that they could not complete this by military means, just speak to those who serving in NI, they looked at the political stage. Al Qaeda in my view will never do this, they are too much a global network with a figure head command structure who has too little control of these 'network' terrorists who undertake attacks in the name of Al Qaeda.