>> Finally, I have never characterized all the September 11 victims as
>> "Nazis." What I said was that the "technocrats of empire" working in
>> the World Trade Center were the equivalent of "little Eichmanns."
>> Adolf Eichmann was not charged with direct killing but with ensuring
>> the smooth running of the infrastructure that enabled the Nazi
>> genocide. Similarly, German industrialists were legitimately
>> targeted by the Allies.
>
> Even a bond trader is a long way from a cog in the Nazi death machine.
I read the original essay to mean everyone in the WTC, which would take in the members of SEIU and HERE who died there.
> And he's a little disturbing when he declares the WTC a "legitimate
> military target":
>
>> It is not disputed that the Pentagon was a military target, or that
>> a CIA office was situated in the World Trade Center. Following the
>> logic by which U.S. Defense Department spokespersons have
>> consistently sought to justify target selection in places like
>> Baghdad, this placement of an element of the American "command and
>> control infrastructure" in an ostensibly civilian facility converted
>> the Trade Center itself into a "legitimate" target.
>
> If he's turning the standards of the Pentagon against the U.S., then
> he's adopting the morality of the imperialists, no?
Perhaps the original title of the essay began with "A Modest Proposal"--but I doubt that.
John A