Comments on: US asked Qatar to stop airing of bin Laden tape http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2004/10/30/us-asked-qatar-to-stop-airing-of-bin-laden-tape/ General interest observations and true web-log. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paddy Mullen http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2004/10/30/us-asked-qatar-to-stop-airing-of-bin-laden-tape/comment-page-1/#comment-2405 Paddy Mullen Mon, 01 Nov 2004 02:03:15 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=667#comment-2405 I am torn on this one, being a libertarian I don't like censorship, but you can't yell fire in a movie theater. This is also a war period, and I don't think that we should actively help the enemy. If we are going to fight the war on terrorism, we need to do it right and make it more dificult for terrorists to recruit people. If the administration doesn't want tapes about Al-Queda getting out, bomb the people who play them. Al-Jazeera has consistently acted as mouthpiece for terrosists, and we should therefore treat them as the enemy. Unless we are going to remove all of our foreign interests (Isreael, Saudi Arabia...) we need to fight the war. No half way war, it didn't work in Vietnam, WW1, or Korea. If we are going to fight terrorism, we should go all the way. I am torn on this one, being a libertarian I don’t like censorship, but you can’t yell fire in a movie theater. This is also a war period, and I don’t think that we should actively help the enemy. If we are going to fight the war on terrorism, we need to do it right and make it more dificult for terrorists to recruit people. If the administration doesn’t want tapes about Al-Queda getting out, bomb the people who play them. Al-Jazeera has consistently acted as mouthpiece for terrosists, and we should therefore treat them as the enemy.

Unless we are going to remove all of our foreign interests (Isreael, Saudi Arabia…) we need to fight the war. No half way war, it didn’t work in Vietnam, WW1, or Korea. If we are going to fight terrorism, we should go all the way.

]]> By: Mike Voice http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2004/10/30/us-asked-qatar-to-stop-airing-of-bin-laden-tape/comment-page-1/#comment-2340 Mike Voice Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:54:48 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=667#comment-2340 <i>Speaking out four days before the US presidential election, Bin Laden issued his first video tape in more than a year to <b>deride</b> US President George W. Bush and to <b>raise the possibility</b> of new Sept. 11-style attacks.</i> October surprise? If you can't capture or kill him, the next best thing is to have him threaten everyone! This "endorsement" should give Bush a nice jump in the polls. Speaking out four days before the US presidential election, Bin Laden issued his first video tape in more than a year to deride US President George W. Bush and to raise the possibility of new Sept. 11-style attacks.

October surprise?

If you can’t capture or kill him, the next best thing is to have him threaten everyone!

This “endorsement” should give Bush a nice jump in the polls.

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