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[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Modern terrorism is fairly young, starting in the 1600s, and the US  
> got involved when the terrorists first started attacking us in the  
> 1700s, hitting our commercial shipping in the Mediterranean Sea.  We  
> didn't cause that, it happened because the islamic people believed  
> that they had a right to attack and steal from anyone who wasn't  
> islamic.

To be fair, just about every nation of any significant strength in
Europe apparently believed for most of the history of western European
"civilization"[0] that it had a right to attack and steal from anyone it
could get away with attacking, whenever it felt like it.



[0] Unnamed journalist: "What do you think of Western civilization?"
    Mohandas K. Gandhi: "I think it would be a very good idea."

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