Dixon Carter Lee
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MunchinMark said:To take the piss is to make fun of something.
Fucking British words. Why can't you people speak English?
MunchinMark said:... it is an organisation not a government
Absolutely true, but what things like "nation", "organization", "government", "act of war" mean in an era where boundaries are disappearing, money is merging, markets are global, military organizations are international, and weapons of mass destruction are available to people is the heart of what I'm getting at here, the difference in the mindset between the Europeans and the Americans, not the difference in our moral fortitude. When I ask "Has Europe given up?" I'm not calling Europe cowardly, I'm asking has Europe accepted that their rules of engagement predispose them towards accepting terrorism as an inevitablilty to be contained and not a ideological threat of global proportions that can actually be eradicated with careful, long term planning and 21st century definitions of "government"?
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