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Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Thursday, June 24 2004, 1:52:22 (CEST)
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Remembering the comparatively innocent old days...

Posted By: Qasrani (62-177-177-243.static.bbeyond.nl)
Date: Wednesday, 23 June 2004, at 11:20 a.m.

You know, I was thinking about the "shock and horror" of the plane hijackings and the taking of civilian hostages in the late 1970s and 80s and how they pale in every regard to all these highly-dramatic beheadings available online and turning commercial aircrafts into guided missiles and the extrajudicial murders that are occurring all over the place. Has warfare become so "technologized" that dissent in our modern age can only be expressed in such gruesome and unbelievable ways?

623 US soldiers have died and scores more have been wounded; I don't have a figure on the members of the multinational force that aren't American.

9,000 to 11,000 Iraqi civilians have died, according to Iraqi Body Count; I don't have a number for the wounded.

And yet the names and images that are brandished in our minds are Nicholas Berg and Kim Sun-il.

Does that mean this tactic is working?

I don't really have any answers. I am just attempting to assess all these things.

And in an attempt to avoid having my message removed for lack of Assyrian content... -->Why would anyone care about a bunch of Assyrians gunned down in the melee that is in Baghdad today while to us, each Assyrian life has such impact? How do you make non-Assyrians care about this?

Qasrani

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