The Sorrow and the Pity Re: Terror Inc.

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Luke Weiger wrote:
>
>>  > This is just the point that got me in trouble when Rick Perlstein
>>>  quoted me in the NY Observer saying that it would take considerable
>>>  force to capture these motherfuckers.
>>
>>Clearly.  But how much less than was employed, Doug?
>
>I don't know. I wish I did. And I wish I knew who'd apply it. The UN 
>doesn't have an army - it needs member states to sign over their 
>troops. And who would those be? The Netherlands? Suriname?
>
>On a related topic, how do people feel about the police 
>investigations and arrests of alleged AQ members going on around the 
>world?
>
>Doug

The results so far show that the war and police actions have netted 
few -- perhaps none? -- that could be plausibly linked to the direct 
responsibility for 9-11-01.

For some problems in the world, there is no psychologically 
satisfying solution (especially no satisfying answer that pleases 
everyone).  Sometimes, nay, most of the times, the truly guilty party 
walk scot-free, be they 9-11-01 terrorists (other than the ones on 
the airliners), the power elite of the Empire, or surviving fascists 
and collaborators who had long and productive lives and even careers 
after WW2.

Have you (and other LBO-talkers) ever watched _Le chagrin et la 
pitié_ (Dir. Marcel Ophüls 1971)?
-- 
Yoshie

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