"®i©ardo" wrote in message
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Alan Erskine wrote:
If it wasn't for the U.S., we wouldn't need an anti-terrorist defence.
LOL!

Oh, but it's true; if the United States and the (then) Soviet Union hadn't
spent the litterally *hundreds of billions of dollars* that took the form of
military equipment, and instead built schools, hospitals, universities,
water purification systems and.... good will.... we wouldn't have the
organisations that think we are all the same - the U.S. and Australia.

Instead, the U.S. has a memory problem - did you know that the Taliban were
supported by the U.S.? And before that, the U.S. supported the Mujahadin?

Also, it is to be remembered that in recent years, terrorism has struck
Russia - Chechnya is only part of that and Chechnya is often the
'whipping-boy' of Russia, along with Georgia (as has been seen in recent
weeks). There have been Soviet aircraft highjackings as well.

Did you know that the U.K (United Kingdom) created Israel out of territory
it had occupied for many years?

Is it any wonder that 'we' are thrown in the same barrel as America?

I'm not saying any of the decisions listed above were wrong, but if the U.S.
in particular had not used the Middle East as a testing ground for its
military equipment (remember the C-5 flights to 'support' Israel in the
early '70's?), the rest of us would not be suffering as we are.

'We' suffer because we are friendly with America. Note that I say
"friendly" - just like all most people are with their domestic neighbours -
friendly, not necessarily friends.

Now; Glenn was not being insulting to America as that idiot ("HEMI-Powered")
suggested. That idiot has been in other groups doing the same thing -
stirring up trouble for no other reason. Glenn was simply making a comment
that he was not at home. Glenn wasn't referring to America, but all the
countries he visited.

It wasn't an insult, it was a joke.