Re this, I note the following from the Hitchens column that Dennis just posted: "In general, the motive and character of the perpetrators is shrouded by rhetoric about their 'cowardice' and their 'shadowy' character, almost as if they had not volunteered to immolate themselves in the broadest of broad blue daylight. On the campus where I am writing this, there are a few students and professors willing to venture points about United States foreign policy. But they do so very guardedly, and it would sound like profane apologetics if transmitted live. So the analytical moment, if there is to be one, has been indefinitely postponed."
But analysis postponed is analysis denied. Giving in to the war fever will just make it that much more difficult to deal at any point with the underlying problems. Leo was wondering yesterday how anyone could be concerned with trying to empathize with the resentments that led to this terrorism when there are still thousands of bodies as well as possible living victims still unrecovered from the WTC wreckage. But if we don't step back from the horror right now and objectively consider how the US's misguided policies contributed to this disaster, we will simply make everything much worse in the long run.
Carl
Carl
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