Lawrence
Tho' I'm really feeling somewhat weary of politics right now:
> I don't think these questions unanswered, except perhaps the last question
> when posed at a personal letter. The answers are very clear, but they are
> too often rejected
What I really shd have wrote was 'unasked', or rather 'too often unasked',
instead of 'unanswered' and that in context of much of the public climate of
discussion of a few days ago.
> bin Laden himself appears to be a USA creation - financed and trained by
> CIA.
Yup.
Best
Dave
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From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: POETRYETC Digest - 14 Sep 2001 to 15 Sep 2001 (#2001-149)
> | Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:03:52 +0100
> | From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> | Subject: Re: WTC
> |
> | The unanswered question about this tragedy is why did the terrorists
> become
> | terrorists? What does the US do that makes the poor of the Middle East
> hate
> | them so much? What makes someone want to become a suicide-bomber?
>
> I don't think these questions unanswered, except perhaps the last question
> when posed at a personal letter. The answers are very clear, but they are
> too often rejected.
>
> The rejection, its nature, is also the province of poets, because usually
> it involves changing the sentence subject and / or leaping a couple of
> stages in the argument
>
> | I entirely agree with your criticism of the Taliban though.
>
> But trying to wipe them out would be no better than trying to eradicate
> cholera without affecting the water supply.
>
> The Taliban must take individual responsibility for their actions, as must
> those in USA and UK, and Saudi Arabia and Israel and USSR; but the
> phenomenon seems to me entirely explicable given the slow burn world war
> which has been fought over their country.
>
> bin Laden himself appears to be a USA creation - financed and trained by
> CIA.
>
> L
>
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