Cooper on the anniversary

[R]

in looking over the LBO-talk postings, i'm amazed that anyone found 
something serious to say about this article which clearly had nothing to 
say.     and is nothing more than squeaky wiping himself on the page.

R

At 10:11 AM 9/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Dennis Perrin:
> > ...
> > Not that I'm endorsing Cooper's standard up-tilted nose approach to 
> matters,
> > but I think a "plague on both your houses" is healthy, independent. And
> > remember how some of the left reacted while the rubble was still smoking --
> > waving fists and chanting "No War!" That dreadful ANSWER rally some weeks
> > after the attacks summed it up for me --very little if any sympathy for the
> > dead and their loved ones; plenty of Correct posturing for hours on end.
> > Fuck them.
>
>If people had sympathy for the dead and their loved ones,
>they would not have made the circus they did.  There would
>have been mourning, not celebration and the most urgent
>and shameless exploitation of a disaster to further every
>sort of political, business and personal agenda.  No, there
>was very little sympathy.  So be it.
>
>-- Gordon