Robert Fisk

Cian O'Connor cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 4 09:10:31 PST 2002


--- Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> wrote:
> Afghans do a lot of
> killing and dying, but it's
> never senseless or random, never the result of a
> dumb-assed domino theory,
> or a sadistic desire to crush third-world upstarts.
> It's more like Big Oil's
> devious but calculated Enduring Freedom, a rational
> means to an end.

Rubbish. Plenty die due to some warlord's latest fit of pique with his neighbour, or some dumb assed blood feud. If that's not senseless, I don't know what is (though dying from an American bomb after the country has supposedly been liberated might come close).

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