how the US dealt with 9/11

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anyone see question time last night? some very refreshing views i thought

one member of the panel compared how the US dealt with the terrorists and how the UK dealt with its terrorist threats in the past, namely the IRA.

it was pointed out that the UK did not go and bomb areas where potential IRA members may be.

how did the US deal with 9/11 though? there's been that much over the past 10 years with iraq and afghanistan that i have actually lost my recallation of what the US did. i remember they went searching for womd, even though there had been intelligence saying that they would not find any and it turns out that, that intelligence was accurate.

do you think the US did the right thing or was it a massive knee jerk reaction that now looks like one massive mistake? do you feel safer as a resident of where you live or would you rather things were handled differently?
 
Part of me feels that they should just let it die and stop having anniversaries and reminding everyone. Everytime its brought up, it's like advertisement for the people who did it.

this was another point. it was commented on that the event had been not so much 'hyped' but certainly glorified in a certain way. a difficult one as something like this will always hold attention but the way things had been done ran the risk of glorifying what was quite easily, al qaeda's (for lack of a better phrase) showcase.
 
The money came from Irish America. The weapons from there dried up in the 80s after George Harrison was arrested by the FBI. Most of that was then sourced came from Libya and Eastern Europe. What most famously did get through from America was the Barret rifles used by the Armagh sniper.

this is another (fact?) that i find a little eye opening. not only were a lot of funds given to the IRA from US residents, the womd's that the US were looking for had apparently been sold and supplied by the US. if anyone knows of and reputable sources to read up on this, i would be grateful.
 
John Lennon famously offered to sing for the IRA to raise money for their "cause".

the more i learn about this bloke, the more i dislike him. i remember seeing a video of him mocking special needs people once. what a truely strange bloke. i thought he was all about peace?! i know he was from an irish catholic family but i thought he joined another religion, let alone the fact he was born in england?
 
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