Hi-jack fall-out

[Carl Remick]

>>>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

Moral grandstanding may be enjoyable, Brad, but it gets in the way of being 
able to empathize with people who do feel glee that two prime symbols of US 
power -- the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- have been devastated, no 
matter what the human cost.  Desperate people do desperate things.  Unless 
we make an honest effort to understand their desperation and act to relieve 
it, we will continue to suffer from "senseless" crimes like this.

Carl

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