Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
- Subject: Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:42:56 +0200
On 16/9/01 at 9:30 pm, Ed Stockly wrote:
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It does not apply when referring to terrorists, as in "they" shouldn't kill
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innocent people. This is true, but in this case "They" is not us.
Think again. No American should forget that the Taliban in general, and Osama bin Laden specifically were armed and trained in terror tactics by the CIA during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Violence always comes home to roost.
America has a long history of training and financing foreign terrorists and despotic regimes when it has been economically expedient to do so. (Saddam Hussein, The Contras, Pinochet...). This is not the first time such foreign policies have backfired years afterwards.
Those who are now baying for the blood of revenge ought to be using some energy thinking about why those responsible for the dreadful events in NYC saw the USA as valid targets. "They are simply evil/insane" wont cut it with the broader global community. The terrorists obviously had some well-formulated grudge, but the American media and government don't seem to be at all interested in what it might have been.
To paraphrase JFK; Those who make peaceful responses impossible make violent responses inevitable.
Apologies for using this inappropriate forum to make these points, but the sickening jingoistic frenzy is going unchallenged everywhere in the US mass media. I get disgusted and insulted when I'm invited to believe in good and evil like black and white, and then asked to make sacrifices on those grounds.
"They" *is* us. No exceptions. Even when speaking about the Twin Towers terror.
-Brennan