hey perrin, did you pen the editorial in todays's Daily News?

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Thu Nov 7 08:19:27 PST 2002



> The deed that Sinan al-Harthi was suspected of having committed is
> far more justifiable (by the standards of human rights, laws of
> warfare, etc.) than, say, the US air attack that killed Qaddafi's
> adopted daughter, the US destruction of the pharmaceutical factory in
> Sudan, the NATO bombing of the Yugoslav TV station, the US
> degradation of Iraqi water supply (@
> <http://www.progressive.org/0801issue/nagy0901.html>), etc. After
> all, USS Cole was an warship, not a civilian installation.


> Yoshie

Leave it to Yoshie to find a progressive (and legal!) side to al-Q's violence. And by attacking a military target, al-Harthi became one himself.

DP



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