September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. (Doris Lessing)

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

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