Hi-jack fall-out

[Ken Hanly]

All the media headlines talk about an attack on the US. And on great
abstractions like freedom and democracy. But of course freedom and democracy
have stronger foundations than the world trade center buildings namely Bush,
the military, and all the other pillars of capitalism. Oh, and the steely
resolve of the US people as Bush pointed out.
You dont understand the media either I suppose?
It hurt the US by showing that it is not invulnerable to attack and its
symbols can be destroyed.
It subjects the citizens of that "organism" to the sort of devastation that
the US and its agents have perpetrated but without
any worry about retaliation.

   How could bombing a secretary working in a media building in Belgrade
hurt an organism called Serbia?

You would think that what happened might cause Americans to ask themselves
why some people hate them so much they are willing to lay down their lives
and
kill innocent people to express that hatred. Of course that wont happen.
Outrage, moralising, repression,  reprisals and revenge will be the order of
the day. Already there seem to be explosions in Kabul.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:23 PM
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