At risk of getting away from the thread let me say that I tremble every time I hear Americans talking about terrorist bombers. For 30 years we had to put up with the IRA bombers killing our innocents with bombs that were paid for with funds raised, quite openly, in America. Terrorism was something that happened somewhere else until 9/11 and then, and only then did we see those funds begin to wane and the IRA begin to talk turkey.
It was just 5 years ago that I got on my bicycle (literally) and cycled down to Portsmouth, got on a ferry to Le Havre and then cycled along the Normandy beaches. I went all the way to the Omaha Beach Cemetery to pay my personal homage to the young Americans who gave their lives so that I could have the freedom to berate some of their sons and grandsons for seeing the light on Terrorism a little late in the day. Churchill once said "you can always trust the Americans to do the right thing - eventually". Well, I'm waiting.
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