Hi-jack fall-out

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Sep 11 14:12:23 PDT 2001



>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>> 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...
>.
>You live in Berekely. You enjoy remarkable personal security. You live in
>tremendous comparative luxury.
>
>Others live in the garbage-strewn refugee camps of Gaza, getting shot by
>settlers and bombed by naval destroyers. With American weapons.
>
>Seth

There are 300,000 people in New York right now who have just lost husbands, wives, parents, children, lovers, and friends.

I dare say that their tragedy has to weigh more heavily in the scale right now than the (real) tragedy in Gaza, doesn't it?

Brad DeLong



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