Heard about this on the news while I was eating dinner. What would attacking Canada accomplish?

A new state.

Nothing. It's a case of disgruntled youth embracing the terrorist ideology, not Bin Laden raining terror and destruction down on Southern Ontario.

We could also stop calling it "That big state up north".

LITTLE SATAN DESERVES IT

There are probably alot more radicals living in Canada right now.

Since when do any terrorist attacks accomplish anything?

Well, generate terror? Make your enemies feel insecure even in their own borders?

But... why Canada? The trees man! They're jealous that Canadians have trees!

Understood, but terrorism has never really "accomplished goals" other than the temporary terror itself.

Well, what attacks had goals, other than to spread terror?

True.

Some people say it affected the Spain elections. Honestly I don't know, it could have gone either way.

I think it did, and thats one of the main reasons why I don't like their general population. Just because they lost a train and around 500 people they think they had it bad. The U.S. lost alot more civilians, suffered more and what not, and look, they are still fighting out there. From my point of view, Spain has been defeated in the war on terror.

[QUOTE=Lord Kuat]Well, generate terror? Make your enemies feel insecure even in their own borders?

But... why Canada? The trees man! They're jealous that Canadians have trees![/QUOTE]

And rocks. Don't forget we have rocks!

Trees and rocks
and rocks and trees
and trees and rocks...

And water.

And ****ing hot french female.

Yeah, and 3000 people die every week from genocide in Africa and we think we had it bad.

EDIT:Nevermind, was going to post a long rant, but bleh, won't do any good.

Can we fix the problem in Africa? Are we involved?

Only one female?

I beg to differ. I think Canada has at least three, if not *five* fine females.

Yes, we could, actually. We are involved, VERY remotely. Please also note, lots of Africa is Moslem, so, part of the war on terror.

Look around man.

Indeed... however why is Africa even mentioned? I'm comparing what it took make Spain back off, compared to what the U.S. took and is taking, yet hasn't backed off.

Dude... I'm not going to go into it... Honestly. It would be a really big waste of time. I'm going to sum it up in a few sentences.

Gold, please, take a look in the mirror. Look down at your hands. Take those two hands, walk back to your computer with them, grab your keyboard with your two hands, and break it over your knee. Go back to the mirror and proudly gaze upon the face of someone who has finally done something intelligent.

We should be involved, and indeed we are to a certain extent, but not enough, in my opinion. Also, our track record isn't stellar. I'll keep myself from ranting, but I'm nearly finished reading "Shake Hands with the Devil" by Romeo Dallaire, and am thoroughly disgusted with how the west has dealt with African genocide in the past. Argh! I'm going red just thinking about it.



Why shouldn't Africa be mentioned? There are human beings dying there too, and on a much larger scale. It's a perspective thing. Yes, you were comparing Spain and the US, but Spook was bringing up something else to consider. It's an open forum, where people are encouraged to contribute different thoughts and opinions, not always following linear arguments.

Honestly dude... STFU. I may not know what precisely is going on in Africa, but I got a pretty good feeling. I know the U.S. sends troops there to help. I also know that Spain chickened out.

We may have one or two SF teams in Africa at times, but we do not (as of late) have troops in appreciable force there.

Spain did not chicken out. Prove that they did.

I don't have to. The simple fact they took their forces out of Iraq because of terrorists demands proved they fear them.

Is that why they did it? Can you provide a source? I'm not straight up calling you out, I just don't remember that being the reason.