dakar rally 2008 cancelled nklr

[Arden Kysely]

Spot on, Z. It's pretty easy to yell "Freedom Fries," slap a flag on your car and take a cheap shot at the French. It's another to consider the safety and security of 3000 people strung out across the deserts of northern Africa for a few weeks. Is there a military on the planet that's effective against guerilla warfare where you can't tell the innocent bystander from the suicide bomber, the farmer from the militiaman? How many racers/support crew/fans would have to die before it was considered manly enough to cancel the event? __Arden

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Zachariah Mully wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:12 -0800, Michael Nelson wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:06:37AM -0800, Charles Earl wrote: > > > The race has been cancelled: > > > > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22502229/ > > > > The French continue with what they do best: surrender and run. > > Wait, you're calling the French pussies when in the US you get anally > probed before flying, have your facial expressions analyzed for > terrorist intent by a bunch minimum wage GED TSA agents, can be arrested > for taking pictures in public spaces and have elected a complete moron > to two terms? They have their own problems in France, but hell, at least > they're not currently democratizing a country at gunpoint, while at the > same time undermining those same freedoms in their own country. > > Ah, yes, thank god us Americans weren't running the race, because then > we'd act on false intelligence, smash and destroy everything, pay out > billions of dollars to whom? we don't know, install a puppet government, > become even more universally reviled by the rest of the world, and then > have the gall to call it a "war on terror". > > No really. This was the right decision when you consider the thousands > of people that they would knowingly be putting at risk. It's only a > race. > > But then you're an American, and we're always right, right? > > Z >