From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> This is the kind of question which political observers & analysts
can't
> answer and should not try to answer. Very roughly, political
analysis
> proceeds through a critique of the generally known. As soon as you
ask
> questions such as "who did it" you are in the realm of TV drama. To
> carry out such investigation you need to be able to subpoena
witnesses,
> survey the crime scene, check alibis, haul material witnesses in for
> questioning, get search warrants . . .etc. etc. etc. It is not a
> dialectical process (in either Aristotle's or Marx's sense of
> dialectics). Doug is wholly correct about such pontificating or
> speculating about factual matters from the outside.
>
> Politically, we need to react to the actions _and_ the rhetoric of
the
> U.S. government, not endlessly speculate about what they "might" do
> someday. We will find out soon enough.
>
> One thing bothers me. If the U.S. government does almost anything it
> will just make things worse and worse for itself. I don't mind the
U.S.
> government being in deep shit. I would mind terrorism being
seemingly
> justified by the results it achieves.
>
> Carrol
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Doth not the 3rd paragraph contradict the 2nd?
Ian