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>I wouldn't care to minimize the damage the US government has done in the
>last 20 years and longer than that--WWII excepted--to many small countries.
>As Chomsky has argued (mainly in the context of insisting taht the term
>"terrorism" is pretty useless), many of these actions fir the definition of
>terrorism if that is understood as violence perpertrated against civiliams
>for political ends. However, it's wrong to deny that Afhghanistan allowed
>itself to become an haven for a particularly nasty gang of
>political-religious thugs who recently committed sever acts of ghastly mass
>murder here in the US.
i like that...."afghanistan allowed itself" .....no better justification for punishing the afghan population? you must have meant to say something else otherwise you are thinking like a true terrorist, a particularly vicious one at that.
As you know, I do not think that justifies war. But
>the fact should not denied, nor the necessity for some response--in my view
>an international politice response--to the crimes committed by thise
>hoodlums. jks
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