(no subject)

[Ken Hanly]

Well while I was traveling to Brandon today listening to a talk show on the
radio an American caller suggested that the appropriate response would be to
nuke states that had harbored the terrorists. Another caller said that this
provided a window of opportunity to destroy all rogue states and occupy
them. That the US should really summon up the courage to do this if it were
really serious about stopping this. States suggested were Iraq, Libya,
Afghanistan, as I recall. So you see there is a considerable fellow feeling
and similarity between the reactions of some Palestinians and US citizens to
terrorist acts. Of course unless you think that Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan
were somehow carved out of  US territory or at least displaced Americans the
analogy is not perfect. And US citizens hardly live under the control of
Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: (no subject)


> >>From: LeoCasey at aol.com
> >>
> >>But what is real offensive, so offensive I have difficulty finding the
words
> >>for my rage about it, is the series of posts from the Heartfields, the
> >>Hanleys and the like which offer the intellectual equivalents of the
> >>celebrations of joy in the streets of Nablus. It is obscene beyond
belief
> >>that they should foist upon us these justifications and explanations for
mass
> >>murder as a blow against American imperialism at a time like this.
> >
> >What bettter time than this, Leo?  We are finally seeing the true
> >cost of America's imperial ambitions and recklessness.  The hatred
> >expressed in Nablus did not arise ex nihilio.  You can either try to
> >understand that hatred and take steps to address its root causes...
> >
> >
> >Carl
> >
>
> If 250 deaths in the Al Aqsa intifada create (say) such a strong
> feeling that Israel needs to be abolished, what sort of feelings will
> the (say) 10000 deaths in the World Trade Center cause?
>
>
> Brad DeLong