Comments | montfort: Bin Ladin asks, Michael answers

montfort

Bin Ladin asks, Michael answers

Oct 30, 2004 02:37

"Bush has told you that we do not like freedom. Then, why didn't we hit Sweden?"

Because no one would care if, say, the Stockholm World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists ( Read more... )

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agirlnamedluna October 30 2004, 05:17:55 UTC

A lot, if you ask me. Scandinavia is a standard for upscale living and a very socialist approach of society

gwendoline October 30 2004, 16:56:21 UTC

I'm afraid I'd have to agree.
Well, to say that no one would care is probably an exaggeration, but Sweden, or any European country really, isn't *The Western World* in the way that the US is.
Thousands of European lives (not to mention African or Asian lives) aren't worth nearly as much as thousands of American lives. That's just the way it seems to be today, at least as far as news coverage goes..

backburner October 30 2004, 19:41:50 UTC

I thought sweden was just a kind of meatball and pancake?

;-)

montfort October 30 2004, 23:17:05 UTC

It's also a bikini team.

davew0071 October 30 2004, 21:36:46 UTC

Nothing against Sweden, of course, but those are excellent points.

I mean, when you can create a disturbance in a city the population of which is nearly equal to that of a country (not to mention the importance of NYC in the global sense -- it being an extremely high profile city), why attack the relatively small country?

Not that no one would care, but it certainly wouldn't get al-Qaeda the attention that destroying NYC's WTC did.