19-04-2009, 12:57 PM
Precursor or unsuccessful causus belli?
The first WTC bombing, the jumbo jet shoot-down off Long Island, and Oklahoma City just may have been invitations to war that were declined, thus necessitating the more "problematic" 9-11 attacks.
The first WTC bombing, the jumbo jet shoot-down off Long Island, and Oklahoma City just may have been invitations to war that were declined, thus necessitating the more "problematic" 9-11 attacks.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene