Safety Cap's Journal: See the pattern here?

Tiny revolution writes:

What we tend to overlook in such situations is that other people will react much as we would... And since [the people who bombed the Marine barracks in Beirut] could not reach the battleship, they found a more vulnerable target, the exposed Marines at the airport.
-- Autobiography of Colin Powell

And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon [after the US-backed 1986 Israeli invasion], it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.
-- Osama bin Laden

Likewise, when we couldn't get at bin Laden, we "found a more vulnerable target."

History repeats...

Indeed

[js7a]

too true