CIA scandal highlights split between Europeans/Americans on war on terror

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CIA scandal highlights split between Europeans/Americans on war on terror

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Outrage in Europe over alleged
CIA torture camps and covert flights across the continent exposes a wide gap between Americans and Europeans on how they view the war on terror, analysts say.

While many Americans came to believe in the wake of the September 11 attacks that terrorists were at their doorstep, ready to strike anytime, Europeans have a different perception, they say.

"On the US side there is a sense of imminent threat, that we cannot waste time by going through courts, finding evidence," Simon Serfaty, an expert on European affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told AFP.

"On the European side there is a sense that the threat is not so very imminent so that you can take your time thinking through the issue and not make compromises between ends and means.".........

besides in this case the cons are sawing off the branch they are sitting on

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1964475&mesg_id=1964665

We are the bratty teenagers.