Current Events — HabitableZone

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Try this

Read the article you posted.

Don't read the blank spaces between the lines - there is nothing there.

Dont take someone else's wod for it (as DFM seems to have done)

Dont translate it into Tomspeak or even Bowserspeak.

Don't parse it or even try to Fisk it for once.

Just read.

If you do all that you'll get to this:

Terrorism is deeply threatening, but it appears to be a much more fragmented and complex phenomenon than the octopus-network image of Al Qaeda, with Bin Laden as its head, would suggest.

While the BBC documentary acknowledges that the threat of terrorism is both real and growing, it disagrees that the threat is centralized:

"There are dangerous and fanatical individuals and groups around the world who have been inspired by extreme Islamist ideas and who will use the techniques of mass terror — the attacks on America and Madrid make this only too clear. But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this Al Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the 'sleeper cells' in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy."

See any difference between this, your first post and DFM's requisite knee-jerks?

Lordy, its time for bed.
Reading lessons continue tomorrow.

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