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Lawrence Upton wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: 25 September 2001 16:43 > Subject: Re: Letter to a leftist friend > > | Someone will pay, in blood and pain, for what has been done to innocent > | American civilians. > > Do you include in that category "innocent American citizens" those who > worked in the Pentagon. If so, why? If not, why not? > > Serious question. Please answer. > > all the best > > L Yes. If one assumes that everyone who works in the Pentagon, including janitors, clerks, quartermasters etc., is guilty of neocolonialism and imperialism, one is following the same standard whereby already starving (and perhaps apolitical) Afghans may soon be "acceptable collateral damage." One accedes also to the idea, with which GWB agrees, that this attack was an act of war.