"Terrorism" was not invented on 9/11

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DECEMBER 29, 2010 10:52AM

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Let's stop the fallacy that "the world (somehow) changed" on that date.

See President John F. Kennedy speaking about terrorism before the UN General Assembly on September 25, 1961. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpG2ZM1vi0
(Copyright - John F. Kennedy Library Foundation)

Unfortunately, as any student of history can tell you, our reactions to it haven't changed much either.

For further comparison/contrast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg4DOWJpWBI

An excerpt from President John F. Kennedy's commencement address at American University on June 10, 1963.
(Copyright: Kennedy Library Foundation)

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I loathed the idea that no one could "get over" 9-11
the terrorists saw that people were paralzyed by it

Kathy Knechtges

December 29, 2010 08:49 PM

"if we don't let the government put their hands in our pants (and the diapers of our children) then the terrorists will have won!"

if you hold a cave in Pakistan next to your ear, you can hear giggling.