Is there a nonviolent response to September 11?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 10 05:37:38 PDT 2001


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>That seems to me quite right. Consider where America's "humanitarian"
>interventions have been centered in the Bush-Clinton-Bush era: since the
>Gulf War, we've managed to kill perhaps twice the number that died in the
>WTC in Somalia: establish a protectorate over southwest Europe; and launch
>a selfless crusade in Afghanistan to rid the world of terrorism. Three
>points of a triangle containing what for almost a century successive US
>governments have recognized as the world's greatest geopolitical prize,
>Mideast oil. This war, like most of America's wars in the last fifty years
>is a demonstration war -- a warning to all of what happens if anyone
>presumes to to disturb the American management of the world economy.

So let me ask you the same question - what are we supposed to do? Nothing?

Doug



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