Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt) writes:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:47:34 -0000, Adam Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >The French have had plently of practice at Counterterrorism on thier soil. 
> >As has most of the rest of Europe. There have been things like the Red 
> >Army Faction, Eta, IRA, UDA. Terrorism does not have the it can't happen 
> >to us shock value it seems to in the US.

> Certainly when the IRA or others have been bombing London, the main 
> public reaction was to go about one's life as normal; people were 
> unfazed.

To be fair the IRA never went for mass casualty bombings,
and the few bombs they detonated which did cause significant
indiscriminate casualties backfired badly on them.

Bastards were good at picking high profile disruptive targets
and fine tuning the ratio of idle threats to real threats.

Compare and contrast Canary Wharf bombing with WTC.