anti-Semitism and the war

[Charles Brown]

Mourning the  terrorist murder of Daniel Pearl will be tragic itself if it prevents clarity on the fact that there is a war going on ( "It's a war") , and if it prevents the pragmatic conclusions from being drawn from that. Safe travel, especially travel in the obvious regions, for Americans and others categories of people that we are fond of has been drastically limited relative to the immediate past. Denial that the killers' motives were almost certainly related to the war that the U.S. has declared on a significant junk of Islamic and Arab civilization ( that the declaration of war is mutual only reinforces the pragmatic point I make here; quibbling over the order of declarations of war does not advance the pragmatic analysis) will only make it more likely that someone thinks it is as safe to travel around the world as it was before the U.S. terrorist retaliations for the September 11 terrorist attacks on D.C., etc. Assume arguendo that Pearl was _not_ a CIA agent. Then obs!
erve that he had other identities that are sufficient to be a target in the war as it actually is, heinous or criminal motives or not. Infer that when Bush declares war on a myriad of terrorists, all Americans are in a war and are targets whether they want to be or not. Take the appropriate precautions and modifications of life patterns.

Charles