Godt råd til Blair.
Trond Andresen
>(Terry Jones is one of the Monty Python team. Yup, _that_ Terry Jones).
>
><http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview>Observer Worldview
><http://www.observer.co.uk/bush>The Bush files - Observer special
>
>Terry Jones
>Sunday February 17, 2002
><http://www.observer.co.uk/>The Observer
>
>To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious
>idea that I can't think why no one has thought of it before. It's so
>simple. If only the UK had done something similar in Northern
>Ireland, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.
>
>The moment the IRA blew up the Horseguards' bandstand, the Government
>should have declared its own War on Terrorism. It should have
>immediately demanded that the Irish government hand over Gerry Adams.
>If they refused to do so - or quibbled about needing proof of his
>guilt - we could have told them that this was no time for
>prevarication and that they must hand over not only Adams but all IRA
>terrorists in the Republic. If they tried to stall by claiming that
>it was hard to tell who were IRA terrorists and who weren't, because
>they don't go around wearing identity badges, we would have been free
>to send in the bombers.
>
>It is well known that the best way of picking out terrorists is to
>fly 30,000ft above the capital city of any state that harbours them
>and drop bombs - preferably cluster bombs. It is conceivable that the
>bombing of Dublin might have provoked some sort of protest, even if
>just from James Joyce fans, and there is at least some likelihood of
>increased anti-British sentiment in what remained of the city and
>thus a rise in the numbers of potential terrorists. But this, in
>itself, would have justified the tactic of bombing them in the first
>place. We would have nipped them in the bud, so to speak. I hope you
>follow the argument.
>
>Having bombed Dublin and, perhaps, a few IRA training bogs in
>Tipperary, we could not have afforded to be complacent. We would have
>had to turn our attention to those states which had supported and
>funded the IRA terrorists through all these years. The main provider
>of funds was, of course, the USA, and this would have posed us with a
>bit of a problem. Where to bomb in America? It's a big place and it's
>by no means certain that a small country like the UK could afford
>enough bombs to do the whole job. It's going to cost the US billions
>to bomb Iraq and a lot of that is empty countryside. America, on the
>other hand, provides a bewildering number of targets.
>
>Should we have bombed Washington, where the policies were formed? Or
>should we have concentrated on places where Irishmen are known to
>lurk, like New York, Boston and Philadelphia? We could have bombed
>any police station and fire station in most major urban centres,
>secure in the knowledge that we would be taking out significant
>numbers of IRA sympathisers. On St Patrick's Day, we could have
>bombed Fifth Avenue and scored a bull's-eye.
>
>In those American cities we couldn't afford to bomb, we could have
>rounded up American citizens with Irish names, put bags over their
>heads and flown them in chains to Guernsey or Rockall, where we could
>have given them food packets marked 'My Kind of Meal' and exposed
>them to the elements with a clear conscience.
>
>The same goes for Australia. There are thousands of people in Sydney
>and Melbourne alone who have actively supported Irish republicanism
>by sending money and good wishes back to people in the Republic, many
>of whom are known to be IRA members and sympathisers. A well-placed
>bomb or two Down Under could have taken out the ringleaders and left
>the world a safer place. Of course, it goes without saying that we
>would also have had to bomb various parts of London such as Camden
>Town, Lewisham and bits of Hammersmith and we should certainly have
>had to obliterate, if not the whole of Liverpool, at least the
>Scotland Road area.
>
>And that would be it really, as far as exterminating the IRA and its
>supporters. Easy. The War on Terrorism provides a solution so
>uncomplicated, so straightforward and so gloriously simple that it
>baffles me why it has taken a man with the brains of George W. Bush
>to think of it.
>
>So, sock it to Iraq, George. Let's make the world a safer place.
>
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