Military force can and does defeat terror.

[Xarog]

LMAO!

He doesn't know what that means... come on... stop picking on him!

Hey, by all means pick on me as much as you want. You only show up your own stupidity in doing so.

 

[BBSA]

Hey, by all means pick on me as much as you want. You only show up your own stupidity in doing so.

LOL... you did not even realise it and you have the audacity to call others stupid.

 

[LazyLion]

Hey, by all means pick on me as much as you want. You only show up your own stupidity in doing so.

irrelevant

 

[BBSA]

irrelevant

 

[d0b33]

Honestly, this thread is a joke... Sri lanka is not Gaza.

 

[LazyLion]

Honestly, this thread is a joke... Sri lanka is not Gaza.

prove it! I don't see how you can come in here acting all irrelevant, making these outrageous claims and not providing one single link as evidence!

 

[d0b33]

prove it! I don't see how you can come in here acting all irrelevant, making these outrageous claims and not providing one single link as evidence!

Sure, here's a map...
http://bpujos.free.fr/PagesPhotos/Photos/Autres/world_map.GIF

See.. Gaza is not Sri Lanka.

 

[LazyLion]

Sure, here's a map...
http://bpujos.free.fr/PagesPhotos/Photos/Autres/world_map.GIF

See.. Gaza is not Sri Lanka.

more propaganda! Hate sites!

/me goes to bed... it is hard to concentrate over the sound of my own intense relevance.

 

[d0b33]

I thought military force had defeated the terrorism in Sri Lanka?

Colombo: A police officer and a civilian were killed and 12 others, including four schoolchildren, were injured when suspected LTTE militants carried out a bomb attack in the Eastern Batticaloa region of Sri Lanka on Wednesday.

Bomb blast kills 2

 

[BBSA]

I thought military force had defeated the terrorism in Sri Lanka?
Bomb blast kills 2

Did you miss this part in the article:

The Tigers may still be able to carry out some terror attacks, though they no longer pose a wide-scale threat

 

[d0b33]

Did you miss this part in the article:

If there is a threat of 2 civilians dying every week or so by a bomb blast I would say you have a problem.

 

[Xarog]

If there is a threat of 2 civilians dying every week or so by a bomb blast I would say you have a problem.

2 rocket attacks per week was apparently bad enough to warrant an invasion in other places...

 

[semiautomatix]

Zimbabwe had a comparatively peaceful transition as well then and look how that turned out

Good point! Britain handed the country to MadBob on a silver platter. Strange how he turned on his benefactors.

 

[Xarog]

Good point! Britain handed the country to MadBob on a silver platter. Strange how he turned on his benefactors.

So just out of curiosity, how do you think things should have gone down in SA?

 

[d0b33]

Good point! Britain handed the country to MadBob on a silver platter. Strange how he turned on his benefactors.

So he was never elected but put in power, yes that was a pretty smart move.

 

[semiautomatix]

Honestly, this thread is a joke... Sri lanka is not Gaza.

Do please back up your comment with some sort of reasoning.

In the same logic, Gaza is not Germany. Yet the reference to the Holocaust is widespread around here.

 

[semiautomatix]

So just out of curiosity, how do you think things should have gone down in SA?

Give it five more years, then we'll have a looksie shall we? Actually that kinda works out well, Zim went to pot after 20 years, at 20 years we'll be there for JZ to rig his second general election. I like the parallel references, frightening, but interesting none the less.

Oh to answer your question, I believe the answer flying around is: "Honestly, this thread is a joke... South Africa is not Zimbabwe. "

aqua has been kind enough to grace us with a map:

http://bpujos.free.fr/PagesPhotos/Photos/Autres/world_map.GIF

Anyway, my actual point is that some terrorists can't be negotiated with.

 

[semiautomatix]

So he was never elected but put in power, yes that was a pretty smart move.

Britain could have just as easily kept Zim as a colony. Things might have turned out very differently.

 

[whipper]

Like Israel, the US, and every other nation state out there, which is apparently justified in abusing human rights.

+1

 

[Xarog]

Give it five more years, then we'll have a looksie shall we? Actually that kinda works out well, Zim went to pot after 20 years, at 20 years we'll be there for JZ to rig his second general election. I like the parallel references, frightening, but interesting none the less.

Oh to answer your question, I believe the answer flying around is: "Honestly, this thread is a joke... South Africa is not Zimbabwe. "

aqua has been kind enough to grace us with a map:

http://bpujos.free.fr/PagesPhotos/Photos/Autres/world_map.GIF

Anyway, my actual point is that some terrorists can't be negotiated with.

My point is that trying to kill terrorists is usually a counter-productive excercise, especially when the terrorists have a legitimate reason to be upset.

Which is why I really do want to know how you would've handled the whole ANC issue at the beginning of the 90s. Do you think the Nats made a mistake when they decided to come to the negotiating table with the ANC? If so, then where, and if not, why not?