Robert Fisk

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Oct 3 09:46:31 PDT 2001


Ian Murray wrote:
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> But first, let's keep the record straight. The atrocities of 11
> September were a crime against humanity.

A crime, yes. But a "crime against humanity"? Oh come off it. The holocaust was a crime against humanity. The U.S. invasion of southeast asia was a crime against humanity. The ongoing bombing of and sanctions against Iraq is a crime against humanity.

It takes something far more than killing a few thousand people to constitute a crime against humanity. Let's maintain some chastity of language.

Carrol



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