Terrorist attack in Britain 'imminent'

[Rocky]

id say a British bomb and rocket attack in Basra or Afghanistan is probably a lot more imminent . The people there seem to cope with the daily threat of a British attack over the last number of years much better .

I'd say a suicide bombing or a Car bomb in Iraq or Afghanistan is even more imminent.

However Britain is a lot closer to us and terrorist attacks are a lot rarer there, so it’s to be expected that the threat of a terrorist attack in Britain would make more news.

[smiffy]

I didn't say you should stop banging on. I'm simply pointing out that this is a thread about the terrorist attacks in Britain. You chose to note that there are more attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan. It seems rather hypocritical of you not to apply the same standard to your own threads.

then raise the issue in those threads and kindly stop attempting to derail this one.

I don't care about the issue. I'm simply pointing out that you are the one attempting to derail this thread with your incessant, pathetic, whataboutery.

[merle haggard]

its obvious who is derailing this thread . If youve a point to make start a thread and stand over it .

[dsmythy]

Dubcentral, if you've ever expressed concern about Afghans or Iraqis on this site, the way you have about Britons tonight, then I will apologise to you. If you have not, then I really believe you are a racist.

This is ridiculous. Nobodys under any obligation to care as much for far off lands as much as our nearest neighbour and if they choose to care more for whats happening in Britain then let them. Absolutley ridiculous.
Last time i checked Britain was a multi-racial country so where racism comes into it is beyond me.

[smiffy]

its obvious who is derailing this thread . If youve a point to make start a thread and stand over it .

It's against the rules to start threads about individual posters, so I can't. If I was going to start a thread, it would be along the lines of 'merle haggard is a hypocrite who is unable to discuss recent events in Britain without going off on a tangent about completely separate events elsewhere, then whinges and goes into a sulk when this is pointed out to him, and claims that others are attempting to derail the thread'.

To use your logic, this thread was started about the attacks in Britain. If you want to talk about Iraq and Afghanistan, start a thread about those somewhere else.

[total]

eh you see the action is far away countries gradually makes its way to Ireland and affects us in a very big way. We have seen the demonstrations and oppositions for Iraq and a significant vote in the election being swayed by the partys stance on Iraq. We can't just ignore the rest of the world but we need to recognise the more important issue. The idea of terrorist groups from the middle east has made it over to Britain and a bomb in a car classifies such a high level of emergency. Other countries live in this state and we do nothing to address it. We just sit comfortably in our own little world and when something in our own narrow view happens we sit up and take notice and post posts

[ReformedSocialist]

its obvious who is derailing this thread . If youve a point to make start a thread and stand over it .

It's against the rules to start threads about individual posters, so I can't. If I was going to start a thread, it would be along the lines of 'merle haggard is a hypocrite who is unable to discuss recent events in Britain without going off on a tangent about completely separate events elsewhere, then whinges and goes into a sulk when this is pointed out to him, and claims that others are attempting to derail the thread'.

To use your logic, this thread was started about the attacks in Britain. If you want to talk about Iraq and Afghanistan, start a thread about those somewhere else.

Thank you smiffy.

[vito corleone]

id say a British bomb and rocket attack in Basra or Afghanistan is probably a lot more imminent . The people there seem to cope with the daily threat of a British attack over the last number of years much better .

I'd say a suicide bombing or a Car bomb in Iraq or Afghanistan is even more imminent.

However Britain is a lot closer to us and terrorist attacks are a lot rarer there, so it’s to be expected that the threat of a terrorist attack in Britain would make more news.

Rocky, isn't that precisely the problem? That our media tell us that foreigners are scum and, completely coincidentally, governments factor in the fact that we don't give a f**k about foreigners to do whatever they want. Shouldn't we rise up against that? Why do we care more about somebody in Cork or Liverpool than somebody in Basra or Kabul?

[Trefor]

Dubcentral, if you've ever expressed concern about Afghans or Iraqis on this site, the way you have about Britons tonight, then I will apologise to you. If you have not, then I really believe you are a racist.

This is ridiculous. Nobodys under any obligation to care as much for far off lands as much as our nearest neighbour and if they choose to care more for whats happening in Britain then let them. Absolutley ridiculous.
Last time i checked Britain was a multi-racial country so where racism comes into it is beyond me.

Terrorist attacks in the UK are at least partly the result of British foreign policy in the Middle East.

One of the results of the said foreign policy is that rather large numbers of people are killed in that part of the world.

If you make a song & dance about an unexploded gas canister in London, but fail to mention cruise missiles & the like thumping into residential areas in another part of the world you're normally not open to claims of hypocrisy, double standards, racism etc.

But where both syndroms of violence are linked - then you are open to those charges.

In this case, they are linked & dubsthcentralboy is open to the accusations.

[ReformedSocialist]

If these bombs were going off in Gaza and the Israeli Army was responsible.

There'd be 10 different threads on here by the leftists and pictures of dead Palestinians posted everywhere.

It would be milked .

However the bombs in London and Glasgow have to be swept under the carpet.

The template the "The west is evil and deserves everything it gets" isn't fulfilled so it must be ignored and images of destruction elsewhere must be highlighted .