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Corrected typo: the first line shd say 'non-absence'. > I'm sorry, Michael, but the absence of civilian targetting in US reprisals > overseas would be all too consistent with its past behaviour. I'm not for a > moment trying to belittle the deaths in the USA (quite a number of whom were > British) but previous US attacks on Iraq, Sudan and Libya have been > noticeable for the deaths of civilians. > > Because an atrocity has been committed, it does not mean we should abandon > our critical faculties to the military-political-industrial complex. If > Afganistan is to become 'The Enemy' we have the spectacle of the US > attacking a country consisting of about 85% subsistence farmers almost all > of whom would never even have heard of what happened on Tuesday. A country > so poor even its Foreign Ministry has to rely on an exchange in Peshawar, > Pakistan for a telephone number and about 25% of whose population are within > a fortnight of starvation. > > As all overseas aid agencies have withdrawn because of the likelihood of US > attacks then the innocents are already soon to die. > > > David Bircumshaw > > Leicester, England > > A Chide's Alphabet > www.chidesplay.8m.com > > Painting Without Numbers > www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Snider" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 4:44 PM > Subject: Re: WTC > > > > You don't get it, do you? There will be no deliberate targeting of > > civilians, and all possible care will be taken to avoid it. > > > > But if those who planned and supported the murder of 5,000 innocent > > people are not brought to justice -- and that will be the intent, > > though inevitably some of these murderers will die -- then more > > innocents will die. > > > > > > On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 11:03 AM, david.bircumshaw wrote: > > > > > Most interesting this, from a point of view of language use, I see the > > > US > > > Senate has just approved the quote 'use of force' unquote against > > > terrorists. > > > > > > As too the US has declared itself at war, and 'leading the world in that > > > war' (I quote GW), the question of 'collateral damage' arises, that is > > > to > > > say, it therefore becomes justifiable for 'civilian' casualties to > > > occur in > > > that war against a nameless enemy. > > > > > > David Bircumshaw > > > > > > Leicester, England > > > > > > A Chide's Alphabet > > > www.chidesplay.8m.com > > > > > > Painting Without Numbers > > > www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm > > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:21 PM > > > Subject: Re: WTC > > > > > > > > >> This isn't a comment on anything anyone's posted but I was just > > > accidentally > > >> caught the end of the special service at St Paul's. I listened in > > >> bewilderment as I thought I was hearing a satirical parody of the worst > > >> rhetoric imaginable. > > >> > > >> > > >> David Bircumshaw > > >> > > >> Leicester, England > > >> > > >> A Chide's Alphabet > > >> www.chidesplay.8m.com > > >> > > >> Painting Without Numbers > > >> www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm > > >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm > > >> > > > > > >