>
> [From www.ntk.net, the sarcastic brit-nerd newsletter. Their comment on
> Blair's crystalline logic follows his quote]
>
> <quote>
>
> Tony Blair at joint press conference with George Bush:
>
> "What has caused the terrorist attack today in Turkey is not the
President
> of the United States, is not the alliance between America and Britain.
> What is responsible for that terrorist attack is terrorism..."
>
> ...furthermore, it is precisely because we fear that which we
> fear - that we are afraid of it
>
> <endquote>
>
> So terrorism causes terrorism. It's the uncaused cause, the ultimate
> explanation, the god of our time. I guess that's what they mean by
> getting back to bsolute values.
>
> Michael
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The night before he said that TB had obviously re-read some of Giddens stuff on constitutive self-referential systems!! :-)
Ian