> The Taliban leadership was given a chance to repudiate their paymaster
> bin Laden and to turn him and Al-Qaeda over. They refused. The blood
> of their people is on their hands far more than ours. The words
> Dresden, Hitler, and Bomber Harris could be substituted with equal
> validity.
>
Yes, Frederick, but that isn't the point. Whatever the Taliban leadership
are like the question is about the killing of innocent people, just as
happened at the WTC. Now I'm not proposing any solutions or answers to it, I
haven't got any, but what I do feel is that something is going seriously
wrong in our world. I live among working class people and in the last few
months I've heard views expressed that would have been unthinkable before
Sept 11th. Racial hatred is becoming respectable.
Remember, there were many Brits killed at the WTC, and car bombs are
starting to appear in my native Birmingham, so I don't say these words
lightly.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: from Salon
> Alison Croggon wrote:
> >
> > Dear Frederick
> >
> > I would never take an attack on John Howard, or the UN criticisms of
> > Australian violations of human rights in our treatment of asylum
> > seekers or Aboriginal communities as an attack on _me_. So I'm
> > baffled that critique of US government policy (which is horrific, and
> > has been horrific for years, if you think about the sponsorhip of
> > terrorism in Niaragua, the asssassination of Allende, the illegal
> > carpet bombing on Vietnam and Cambodia, and many many other well
> > known and publicly-documented actions) is "bashing" Americans. Much
> > of that critique originates from Americans, anyway.
> >
> > And I've never said anything remotely like what that writer appears
> > to be attacking, either. Tell me, Frederick - did I _ever_ say
> > "Americans deserved it" or that I didn't care about September 11? To
> > suggest that I have is a gross distortion. To me the slaughter of
> > innocent civilians _anywhere_ is abhorrent, and what happened in NY
> > was horrific. And it seems to me that if the US government is to
> > seriously make claims for justice, then it has to stop engaging in
> > the same activity. (OK, simplistic, but have a look at this, by one
> > of the few journalists I really respect, Robert Fisk)
> >
> > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=106834
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Alison
> >
> > >d
>
> The Taliban leadership was given a chance to repudiate their paymaster
> bin Laden and to turn him and Al-Qaeda over. They refused. The blood
> of their people is on their hands far more than ours. The words
> Dresden, Hitler, and Bomber Harris could be substituted with equal
> validity.
>
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