USS Cole bombing in yemen


I'm sure the USS Cole bombing in Yemen was inspired by this movie.

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I disagree.
Al qaeda was inspired by Farragut.

Gott ist tot.
Nietzsche

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I doubt that the God bothering jackass on the speedboat ever saw the film.

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Sometimes when I watch different movies that show the US being attack in various movies, (White House Down, some of the Die Hard movies, or even the old movie Black Sunday among others) I think "Oh great, give the terrorists ideas!"

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The Cole bombing was an attack on a legitimate military target, not a terrorist attack. Al-Qaeda sucks, but not every military action that goes in a direction you don't like is "terrorism". It's only terrorism if it's an attack on civilians (which, by the way, the US kills more civilians than al-Qaeda could ever dream of). But you people call it terrorism even when they shoot back at troops occupying their land in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's resistance, not terrorism.

Also, i'm pretty sure that the US occupying and bombing their countries, killing millions of their people, imposing devastating neoliberal economic policies on them, overthrowing their governments when they don't comply, stealing their resources and leaving them impoverished and hopeless and their countries and economies ruined is what gives people the idea of attacking the US, not seeing some half-century-old Hollywood movie.

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Ten-four Kawada. Agreed.

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Just because some people support the US with simple ideas, does not mean you can reverse the simple-mindedness and get it right. The saddest part in all of this is that millions upon millions of people all over the world have to lose their money, with labor, their land, and in some cases their lives because of greedy people with power. The sad part is that most are not strong or smart and educated enough to say no to this. When people moved or were forced off their ancestral lands when they were stolen they had to slave for wages to exist in the cities, and that is where most of this started. See the documentary "The End Of Poverty".

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