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Originally Posted by Walkabout
Dizzie,
It is a mindgame, and the terrorist mentality is winning the game.
"One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic" - Joe Stalin (he understood the Western mentality).
"Going to war without the French is like going to war without your accordian" - you can look this one up.
Apart from that, the PD may be history in any case; who is going to spend and prepare in the next year when the French Govn can cancel it at one day's notice?
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Was it not ASO, and not the French Gov that cancelled the event?
Everyone has been put in a 'catch 22' position, It shows once again that terrorism can never be beaten. Without actually doing anything to the rally they(the terrorists) have forced it's cancellation. In theory they could 'finish' the event for ever by threatening future 'Dakars'. On ther other hand if the threats were ignored and people were injured/killed, ASO would themselves be'finished'.
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Last edited by palace15; 4 Jan 2008 at 13:48.
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