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03-19-2009, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
I don't know if it is an "over-reaction". It is a reaction to Australia and England. If they DIDN'T issue a warning, people would say "Why didn't you warn us this was happening if you knew about it?" (I didn't hear anything about the English or Australian warnings...did you? Somehow the American warning makes the news.) The embassy didn't have much choice.
Well the New Zealand and Canadian embassies haven't issued such warnings (as far as I know) so I don't agree they had no choice.

Anyway I'm not singling out the Americans for over-reacting. The whole warning in itself is an over-reaction.

This sort of thing happens over here. We don't tell our own to avoid bars in a particular area.
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