MADRID, Spain - Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were "not that terrible" when compared to attacks by the IRA [Christian Terrorists] in Britain.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. About 3,700 died and tens of thousands of people were maimed in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.
"As for Bush, he's a world calamity," added Lessing. "Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars."
Iran also came in for a lashing from Lessing, who was born to British parents who were living in what is now Bakhtaran, Iran.
"I hate Iran, I hate the Iranian government, it's a cruel and evil government," she was quoted as saying.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_re_eu/spain_lessing
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2007-10-22 14:08:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Seeing that you are a Muslim, I would venture to guess that you think 9/11 was just peachy...
2007-10-22 15:02:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
More families in a smaller community lost more loved ones, and had to live with the consequences of those (ongoing) terrorist attacks in their daily lives over a much longer period of time. The mass murder of the occupants of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the airliners was more sensational and abstractly traumatic than the isolated execution-style murders and random bombings in Northern Ireland. We all suffer vicariously through empathy and the news, but, after all, we turned on the Afghani and Iraqi people for "harboring the criminals" and made those bystanders pay a hundred fold. In Northern Ireland, the British occupying army, the Provisionals and the Loyalists, have not recked so much havoc. As with most creative writers, Ms. Lessing is tweeking our collective nose for our maudlin attempts to say how much Americans have "suffered" from that one event. We have been so isolated for so long from the rest of the world by our oceans and our wealth that we have no clear understanding as to the degrees of socio-economic hardship that result from war and violent struggle. Add to that, that she speaks in Marxist analytical terms of class struggle, and there is no doubt she is speaking right past the comprehension of most Americans, who generally believe in a "classless" society and are blind or distainful toward world views that acknowledge class, ethnocentricity, religious mythology, sex roles and other all-too human mindsets as the motivators for human grief.
2007-10-22 14:35:38 · answer #2 · answered by Christopher P 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh right - it's just the numbers that died that count.....
probably because 9/11 was a one off attack by people who didn't live next door to you
whereas the IRA was a sustained 30 year campaign - we've only just got them to disarm - it f**ked our economy thats for sure and I'm not sure how it will take either side to trust each other again
2007-10-22 19:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
one ingredient i've got learnt is which you do no longer harm someones blockade and anticipate a pat on the returned from them. She broke the regulation. At worst they are going to positioned her on a airplane returned to united statesa.. i ask your self what intense greenback lodge they are going to imprison her in. Lulu? A lawyer? Now you haven't any longer have been given any redeeming value. A lawyer that lies.
2016-10-04 09:39:34 · answer #4 · answered by koffler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well in most cases, regardless of the nations or eras involved, 3,700 people killed will always be relatively "worse" than 3,000
unless the 3,700 killed were a bunch of Hitlers
this comment isn't very remarkable or newsworthy IMO
2007-10-22 14:12:50 · answer #5 · answered by . 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You appear to have answered your own question...by your own numbers far more were killed and injured by the IRA than on 9/11.
2007-10-22 14:12:36 · answer #6 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea what she's talking about regarding Christian terrorists in Britain. I've never heard of such a thing.
Bush is doing a great job. Bush graduated from Harvard. He is extremely intelligent. He is responsible for our nation's welfare and I think he is doing all he can to protect our nation from terrorism.
2007-10-22 14:22:14 · answer #7 · answered by goldyyloxx 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Because it's true. Your numbers are totally skewed by the way...
2007-10-23 04:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm with Lessing...
2007-10-22 18:04:09 · answer #9 · answered by 地獄 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um...winning the Nobel gives people a big mouth..
2007-10-22 14:12:28 · answer #10 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 7⤋