Comments:Nobel laureate Doris Lessing: 9/11 'wasn't that terrible' compared to IRA attacks

No one criticizes the president of Iran... this seems a bit different. Also the IRA attacks took place over a long period of time; 9/11 was a single strike which turned out to be much more deadly than any single IRA attack. And finally if you can compare 9/11 to the IRA bombings, you can compare what happened in northern Ireland to what happened in the holocaust during WWII, a comparison to which it greatly pales. Just my opinions.. Kerrow 23:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)


 * She probably said it before that happened, and she is probably referring about until recently (in which she is correct); that Iran hasn't been criticized until recently. Contralya 00:35, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * That was only a single example. There have been many criticisms of Iran throughout the past few years. Saying that "'nobody' criticizes him (the president of Iran)" is quite an exaggerated claim. Iran is on Bush's "Axis of Evil" list, where he placed them in 2002. Kerrow 02:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * A name on a list. But there hasn't been specific scrutiny until recently. Contralya 09:18, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like she's a socialist in need of a good colonic.
3,700 people people killed during the NI conflict, that was on both sides over a prolonged war.

To the compare 9/11 attack to IRA bombings one should compare a single bombing with another single bombing, NOT an entire campaign to one single event. Otherwise one would have to include all deaths from 9/11, Afganastan AND Iraq in the 9/11 total.

This lady has her soapbox now and is ranting and raving.


 * Good point. Contralya 09:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * on the other hand ireland is a much smaller country than america and it was prolonged and people where scared for along time. nobody is scared 9/11 will happen to they're only scared because bush says 'its a dangerous world, not as dangerous as before but the most dangerous its ever been'! and if my leader was saying that id be v.scared!!!


 * The point is that we get so whipped up over 9/11 and terrorism, we fail to see there was a sustained campaign of terrorism in the U.K. that was far worse, affected far more people on a daily basis, then the one-off of a major terrorist attack on one single day. That's her point.  Compared to the daily terrorism and anxiety that provoked in the U.K., 9/11 only scares us because our leaders use it to scare us.  --David Shankbone 21:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Her parents live in Iran??
She's 88. She really has 2 parents alive? Can this be verified?

I read with interest your coverage of author Doris Lessing’s  comments re. 9/11 and the IRA. These points were made and expanded on in Katherine Cowan’s powerful novel ‘Catch Yourself On’ published in the UK two years ago but yet to find a US publisher. Is this because the truth hurts?

Ralph Hulbert, Wokingham, UK

These numbers are negligiable when compared to Kashmir milatant atrocities
Not to undermine the numbers for 911 or the IRA activities, all other numbers are negligable when compared to the atrocities commited by the millatants in Kashmir estimated at more than 80,000. Who should be blamed for the number of killings happening in Iraq ?? it's a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. There's nothing anyone could do about the past, but the future is on the decisions we make now.

http://www.kashmir-information.com/Atrocities/index.html

This story gives the impression all the roughly 3500 killed were killed by the Provisional IRA. They were in fact responsible for roughly half of these deaths--nothing to be proud of I know but still it's misleading to give the impression they were the only ones doing the killing. A detailed breakdown of organisations responsible for deaths during the troubles can be accessed here: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/tables/Organisation_Responsible.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.53.59 (talk) 21:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

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She said THAT!? She must have been pretty STUPID, then! . . .   ;) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ghost Tracker (talk • contribs) 01:11, 12 June 2013  (UTC)