Gunnair Gunnair:
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Some dimwit had a back-pack bomb at the Atlanta games, as well.
Five years before the onset of cultural paranoia, the Patriot Act, and threat level colours.
Those two like incidents have become apples and oranges.
Had he not been an all-American, homegrown dimwit he would have been included in the larger "War on Terror" narrative.
An historical aside on the above mentioned war ... Did you notice that the IRA signed a peace treaty over Ulster just as the "War on Terror" malarky was first being uttered? It would have been supremely embarrasing to Bush and co. if the anti-terrorist sweeps also included big, rich segments of the Boston Irish who were arming and abetting the enemy of his best ally on the planet. It's the one positive side effect of 9/11 ... it shamed the Irish into ending a 400 year long war before they were tarred with the same brush (and sanctions)as the Muslim Jihadists.