John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
>> What view have I taken?
>
> You have so far argued a fairly uncritical and unqualified support for
> current US counterterrorist measures.

I have done nothing of the kind. I have simply refuted cornball criticisms
of them.

>>> The UK has already been down the road of
>>> counterterrorist measures, vide the movie In the Name of the Father
>>> (a bit embellished, but substantially accurate) for the results.
>>
>> Something tells me that in dealing with terrorism from the IRA e
>> al., the UK didn't give much effort to detaining Belgians.
>
> Ah! This is much like your treatment of the issue of who should
> dominate the world. You will remember you said, basically, "Who
> should dominte the world if not the US?", and I told you to unask the
> question; it is not a foregone conclusion that *any* one country
> should "dominate".

Yes, it is, but you will never understand this fact so there is no point in
discussing it with you.

> Equally, it is not a foregone conclusion that
> *any* demographic group has to be targeted disproportionately by
> counterterrorist measures.

No one is being disproportionately targeted.

> I am not saying that the British
> government should have targeted Belgians rather than Irish Catholics,
> but that they should not have embarked on a policy of
> disproportionate targeting of *anyone*, and the fact that they did so
> damaged the cause of peace in Northern Ireland immeasurably.

Again, no one was disproportionately targeted.

-- 
Kevin Gowen