<Dennis Perrin>-----
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> The attacks on New York and Washington were meant to inflict as much death
> and suffering as possible in support of a retrograde fascist worldview. The
> counterattack on the Taliban and al-Qaeda saved millions from starvation and
> freed the Afghans from their oppressors. Even those who opposed the
one day you'll have people arguing that al quaeda is responsible for the 9-11 deaths as well as the collateral dammage in afghanistan, while the us forces did only free the people of taliban oppression by sending food from the sky.
meanwhile a paper by selig s. harrison in le monde diplomatique may issue (must have been published in english somewhere else) gives a much more realistic picture on what is going on now in afghanistan.
ps: how do you qualify ashcroft's world view ?
jc helary