Michael Snider wrote:
>
> On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 08:53 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
> > Let's separate the real - I was going to say, tragedy, but it's such
> > an abused word - of the WTC murders from the, yes, very
> > self-interested hysterical nationalism which those in power in your
> > country use to justify equally murderous acts.
> >
>
> Even if the numbers in the piece of "journalism" you quoted are true,
> there's an enormous difference between deliberately killing innocent
> people and killing equally innocent people despite real efforts, however
> inadequate in practice, to avoid those deaths. The first is murder. The
> second, whether or not Allied policy in Afghanistan is justifiable, is
> NOT murder. The people of Afghanistan have no trouble seeing the
> distinction -- why can't you?
Thank you, Michael.
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