Desire for Justice in the Unjust World
Dennis Breslin
dbreslin at ctol.net
Fri Oct 19 09:46:40 PDT 2001
> What mirror are you stepping into, Alice? If anything, the terrorist
attacks
> have bolstered the Empire and handed it a blank check to do practically
> anything it wants, in the Middle East and at home, with little dissent. In
> addition, the "War on Terror" now brings into line actors like Russia,
> China, Indonesia and Turkey, who, by being on "the right side," can
decimate
> their "terrorist" targets without fear of US reprisal. The 6,000 deaths
were
> tragic enough, for the families of those killed and still missing. But
> whoever performed this deed did the Empire a tremendous favor, and that is
a
> tragedy for the rest of us.
>
> DP
Hey its getting crowded in this closet. Wasn't another Dennis recently
intoning about how the US was second world and Empire had shifted
east (and west) and the US airstrikes might be escalating its fall?
There seems to be a plethora of side bennies to the attacks.
Dennis
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