Fear and loathing?

Occasionally in the annals of opinions and editorials we see the how far self-delusion and ignorance can go.

On the Fear and loathing letter of July 14, it is apparent that the author, Palmer, has not bothered to read Ressa's tome, nor Sidney Jones' extraordinarily well annotated reports on terrorism and its proponents.

The links of Jamaah Islamiyah and al-Qaeda are irrefutable and the forensic evidence is overwhelming. Only a nescient with a narrow-minded agenda could ignore the data.

I challenge Palmer's claim that at least 90 percent of Time and CNN's information has turned out to be provably false. Their libel suits, at the very least, would be daunting. Could we be privy to your sources?

Methinks the Fear and loathing is but a self-inflicted personal vendetta.

By the way, this terrorism is no longer a phenomenon, but a daily fact of life. If the author would stop roaming the regions of the little mind and look at the "big picture", even that of the ultra liberals, then it would be seen that the paranoia is, in fact, reality.

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