Re: fisk article referred to by chomsky

Whether Osama bin Laden is guilty or not will become become clear in due time. It 's a bit silly to say that he's
such a friendly guy and would never do that. The mother of Hitler and Poll Pot presumably would have said the same.

The attack was an act of terrorism, that means it was an attack against innocent civilians. It's like when you hate
a man you kill one his children or his pets because he's to strong. I personally do not want to live in a world
where this is considered good behaviour. It may have been part of tribal warfare in the deserts of the Middle East,
but we should not tolerate this to spread. Everybody needs peace and safety, our children too. So I think the
guilty ones must be brought to court. It's true that the atombombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki where also an act of
terrorism. We must not forget that. But it cannot justify this attack. Of course the cowboy politics of the U.S.,
their protestant admiration of jews and the jewish arrogance are also stupid. Of course it's understandable that
the victims hate it. But the people in those buildings didn't do this.
The attack will not change the U.S. policy, on the contrary.
The person who did this is a stupid nomad, who never understood anything of ethics or politics and believes only in
religious oneliners: in short a malicious human virus. He or she's not the only one of course. It's only too bad
s/he has the power, got lucky and succeded.

erik

eldorra mitchell wrote:

> The wickedness and awesome cruelty of a crushed and
> humiliated people
>
> By Robert Fisk
> 12 September 2001
> The Independent
> http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=93623
>


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