> From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:23:35 -0700
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Hi-jack fall-out
>
>>>
>>> If there's nothing to celebrate, how can a celebration be understandable?
>>
>> The U.S. has killed people for decades at almost no risk to itself.
>> It's supported the most murderous, repressive regimes imaginable.
>> Can't you imagine how some of its victims could feel a little
>> Schadenfreude?
>>
>> Doug
>
> No. I genuinely don't understand how anyone can think that killing a
> secretary working on the 80th floor of the World Trade Center hurts
> some organism called "the U.S." that, say, assisted Pinochet...
>
>
> Brad DeLong
what about the one that, say, assisted israel?
so make sense of the "celebration" for me. are they just inhuman? monsters? don't such monsters deserve whatever they get? they're sure to get plenty in coming days.
jeff