It's weird to me hearing the reporting on all this. Photos of bombed out public spaces or footage of crowds running from the dark plumes of smoke behind them are very familiar sites over here on tv and in the papers and we hate seeing them in the news but it's not a *new* thing.
I appreciate that some countries are nice places and haven't pissed off half the world, so terrorism against their civilian population is a relatively new thing and some people are only seeing it happen 'on their doorstep' for the first time. So there's a lot of shock value.
But even at work I hear colleagues saying stuff like 'it's like nowhere is safe now' or 'it's happening more and more' and these are guys/gals old enough to know when this shit was commonplace in the UK. Terrorist attacks in the UK have actually gone down *a lot* in the last 10 years, the difference is that now there are more attacks aimed at previously 'safe' lovely countries that didn't do anything to piss anyone off and that almost hurts more (even when it's not my country) and the media is fucking loving it! So even over here the media narrative is that terrorist attacks like this are more common now than ever and on the rise when in actual fact the reality is the same number of attacks (or fewer) spread over more countries with far more attention from international media. Nothing sells paper like terrorism does, just see what it's done to this dying forum.
The Irish terrorism was like the Basque terrorism, or even the Corse terrorism: localized to a specific country. In the 80s of course you'd hear from that in Belgium, but everyone knew that would never happen here. Daech terrorism is different in that it vaguely targets the whole alliance against them, and de facto more attacks happen in countries with more homebrew terrorists and Syria/Iraq returners, Belgium being an absolute champion of that, proportionally speaking.
sigh beau...
i have plenty of things to tell you but excuse my english... how you(europeans) fucked up the rest of the world but it is obvious that you are such a redneck and not capable of thinking deeply
you will continue to ignore what happens in the world until global terrorist set bombs and kill innocents in your country(prorbably czech republic right ? - oh yeah my fav search: czech home orgy)
Good try Reyiz, I guess Westerners should colonize the whole world again, considering that clearly you people have no idea how to govern yourselves? Of course that's a preposterous statement, but it's the logical corollary of what you're saying.
So you believe rapists, murderers, and thieves should be rewarded for ruining other people's lives by being pampered by the government with tax dollars from the same people they destroyed?
kekeke burn the evil doers! Also and as a funny note, in Sweden you can get a life sentence for: Murder, kidnapping, arson, sabotage, devastation, hijacking, espionage, terror crimes, rebellion, endangering the public health by spread of contagion or poison, disloyalty when negotiating with foreign powers, dealing with anti-personnel mines, cluster bombs or chemical or nuclear weapons, unlawful nuclear explosion, treason, genocide and (the following in wartime only) mutiny, insubordination, undermining the will to fight, desertion, unauthorised capitulation, negligence of war preparations and negligence of battle duty; attempts, accessories, accomplices and incitements of all the above crimes might also be punished with life. Although in practice "life sentence" in Sweden almost always means 18 years then parole.
