| 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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