Comments on: Guardian’s future history on Iran bombing http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/04/20/guardians_future_history_on_iran_bombing Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thabet http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/04/20/guardians_future_history_on_iran_bombing#comment-3024 thabet Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:47:16 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2006/04/20/guardians_future_history_on_iran_bombing#comment-3024 "Europe and the USA would probably decide that all internal muslims were potential enemies and treat them accordingly." You mean (white?) Europeans and (white?) Americans are racists who can't distinguish between an attack by a foreign nation and its own citizens? “Europe and the USA would probably decide that all internal muslims were potential enemies and treat them accordingly.”

You mean (white?) Europeans and (white?) Americans are racists who can’t distinguish between an attack by a foreign nation and its own citizens?

]]> By: George Carty http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/04/20/guardians_future_history_on_iran_bombing#comment-3023 George Carty Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:23:23 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2006/04/20/guardians_future_history_on_iran_bombing#comment-3023 I can't understand why there hasn't <i>already</i> been a dirty bomb attack. Dirty bombs to me seem like an awesome terrorist weapon. Due to public fears of radioactivity, they could cause huge disruption even if the actual death toll was minimal. Most traditional terrorists (ie those following Maoist insurgency doctrine) at least want a lot of disruption, not a lot of dead. I can’t understand why there hasn’t already been a dirty bomb attack.

Dirty bombs to me seem like an awesome terrorist weapon. Due to public fears of radioactivity, they could cause huge disruption even if the actual death toll was minimal. Most traditional terrorists (ie those following Maoist insurgency doctrine) at least want a lot of disruption, not a lot of dead.

]]> By: Thersites http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/04/20/guardians_future_history_on_iran_bombing#comment-3022 Thersites Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:43:35 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2006/04/20/guardians_future_history_on_iran_bombing#comment-3022 It doesn't much matter who would be US president in such circumstances; with a lunatic who believes his main political purpose is bringing back the lost imam and the last judgment apparently running Iran they'd all respond similarly in such circumstances. The other thing Garton Ash does not consdier is the likely consequences of his imagined Iranian retaliation: Europe and the USA would probably decide that all internal muslims were potential enemies and treat them accordingly. It doesn’t much matter who would be US president in such circumstances; with a lunatic who believes his main political purpose is bringing back the lost imam and the last judgment apparently running Iran they’d all respond similarly in such circumstances. The other thing Garton Ash does not consdier is the likely consequences of his imagined Iranian retaliation: Europe and the USA would probably decide that all internal muslims were potential enemies and treat them accordingly.

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