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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on October 23, 2007, 05:44:01 PM
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Maybe I'm missing something here but how can you compare a single terrorist attack to a campaign by a terrorist group that lasted decades? While I agree with her opinions of Bush and Blair I cant see any way you can compare the terror acts.
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said that the 11 September attacks were "not that terrible" compared to the IRA's terror campaign.
"Some Americans will think I'm crazy... but it was neither as terrible or as extraordinary as they think," the writer told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
The 88-year-old added that "people forget" the IRA bomb attack on Margaret Thatcher's government in 1984.
Lessing won the Nobel prize, worth £763,000, honouring her 57-year career.
Five people died and 34 were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in a Brighton hotel where leading members of the Conservative party - including Mrs Thatcher - were staying for its annual conference.
'World calamity'
The author conceded that "many people died and two prominent buildings fell" in the attacks on New York's World Trade Center in 2001.
"They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she added of Americans.
Lessing, whose novels include The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor, also branded President George W Bush "a world calamity".
"Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars."
The writer also said that she "always hated Tony Blair from the beginning".
Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for her "fire and visionary power", and is due to collect her award at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December.
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Bearing in mind Ms Lessing's literary canvas I'm surprised she didn't mention the Third Crusade, The Inquisition and the Holocaust eeek:
Oh... and she is 88 after all...
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I wonder if she was really intimating something along the lines of “You smug bastards thought it was okay to give money to the IRA when they were blowing up British soldiers, civilians, politicians and horses but started to take terrorism a bit more seriously when it was played at home didn’t you?”
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I wonder if she was really intimating something along the lines of “You smug bastards thought it was okay to give money to the IRA when they were blowing up British soldiers, civilians, politicians and horses but started to take terrorism a bit more seriously when it was played at home didn’t you?”
Wish she had put it like that. ;D
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I wonder if she was really intimating something along the lines of “You smug bastards thought it was okay to give money to the IRA when they were blowing up British soldiers, civilians, politicians and horses but started to take terrorism a bit more seriously when it was played at home didn’t you?”
happ096
The yanks always loved the plucky little "freedom fighter" till he came knocking at their front door. Ronny Reagan had nothing but praise for Al Qaeda and the Taliban when they were killing Soviets.
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I wonder if she was really intimating something along the lines of “You smug bastards thought it was okay to give money to the IRA when they were blowing up British soldiers, civilians, politicians and horses but started to take terrorism a bit more seriously when it was played at home didn’t you?”
happ096
The yanks always loved the plucky little "freedom fighter" till he came knocking at their front door. Ronny Reagan had nothing but praise for Al Qaeda and the Taliban when they were killing Soviets.
Yet they still went into Afghanistan… noooo:
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I wonder if she was really intimating something along the lines of “You smug bastards thought it was okay to give money to the IRA when they were blowing up British soldiers, civilians, politicians and horses but started to take terrorism a bit more seriously when it was played at home didn’t you?”
happ096
The yanks always loved the plucky little "freedom fighter" till he came knocking at their front door. Ronny Reagan had nothing but praise for Al Qaeda and the Taliban when they were killing Soviets.
Yet they still went into Afghanistan… noooo:
Perhaps they thought the Northern Alliance were the plucky, democacy-loving freedom-fighters from Rambo 3, not a cartel of warlords and opium dealers.
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Perhaps they thought the Northern Alliance were the plucky, democacy-loving freedom-fighters from Rambo 3,
I thought it was a Building Society. redface:
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Perhaps they thought the Northern Alliance were the plucky, democacy-loving freedom-fighters from Rambo 3,
I thought it was a Building Society. redface:
drumroll: