17 August 2005

what terrorism is/not

"A truth ''that has been largely forgotten in the post-9/11 frenzy is that terrorism is a technique, not an ideology or a country. It is a technique that any group can pick up and use, without distinction of ideology, creed, or cause, and the people wielding it could as easily be fanatical anti-government Americans, Troskyists Germans, (or) Islamist Arabs.''"
-Gwynne Dyer ''Future: Tense, The Coming World Order,''
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"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

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