[lbo-talk] A Calculated Provocation

[Jon Johanning]

I think everyone who talks about the question of whether the people who 
died on 9/11 were "justly executed" is making a lot of assumptions 
about who these people actually were. Probably some were janitors, 
etc., others were insanely rich "masters of the universe," and others 
were all sorts. I didn't bother reading all the little articles about 
them  in the NY Times, and those articles weren't at all informative, 
since they were basically obituaries, but one would have to do research 
on that level of detail to say something about it.

OTOH, supposing they were all "little Eichmanns." Still, even Eichmann 
got some sort of trial; these people were killed en masse out of a 
clear blue sky. And if you look closely at the statements by bin Laden 
and the other AQ folks associated with the executioners (yes, I'm 
assuming, until better evidence turns up, that the AQ people, not Bush, 
were responsible), their motivations were very different from Western 
leftists who have cheered at their deaths. And note also that said 
Western leftists didn't have the balls to fly planes into the WTC; they 
only sat in their comfortable studies and put their glee into writing 
afterward.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil.
Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.

	-- Sir John Vanbrugh: The Provok’d Wife (1697), I.i.