Did I? Where?
> Leo is right that you are a morally outside
>of any political comradeship with me.
Agreed.
(Incidentally, I read Leo's comment 'I have alternating feelings of incredible depression and barely controllable rage when I read some of the post-WTC e-mails to this list.' To which I have to say, so why read them? Assuming that you don't want to rage or be depressed - which is maybe my mistake - wouldn't you just stop opening my mails? I really don't mind if you do.)
>What you also said:
>
>1. The people of the Middle East - if they are the perpetrators - have a
>right to fight back, and this was certainly an audacious blow against
>the imperialist heartland
I did write that. I stand by it. The people of the Middle East in general and the Palestinians in particular have been subject to a relentless war of attrition, on the part of a military regime that you and Leo both support. They have a right to fight back.
But what you dishonestly try to cover up is that I qualified the above points with an unequivocal statement that the act of terrorism was wrong.
As to the rest, what is it that you disagree with:
>
>8. The perpetrators had no other power than the productive capacity of
>US capital, turned against itself, and their own determination;
Are you suggesting that the planes were any other than American planes?
>
>9. The West has operated a foreign policy modelled on permanent war-
>footing, it would be surprising if it did not provoke a reaction;
Do you disagree?
>14. Public sympathy in European capitals will be tinged by Schadenfreude
>that the US has finally got its comeuppance
That was interpretation, I certainly did not endorse it. I have often posted on anti-American sentiment in Europe.
>But then you're consistent. Dead bodies from Kosovo to Rwanda are
>meaningless to you except so far as they serve your ideological axes to
>grind.
Look not to the mote in the neighbour's eye when thou hast a beam in thine own.
Or let me put it another way: Will you join me in opposing proposed military strikes against Afghanistan? -- James Heartfield