"If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it. "
>If that's all that Ward Churchill had said, we wouldn't be having this
>discussion. But he singled out the people in the towers as individually
>responsible, as "Little Eichmanns", making clear they were war criminals
>who were legitimate targets. That's a completely different statement.
>
>Like much of the left and most liberals, I completely agree with your
>sentence below. That you think it's equivalent to what Churchill said is
>ridiculous.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <philion at stolaf.edu>
>To: "lbo " <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 1:07 PM
>Subject: [lbo-talk] What Nathan doesn't get about 911 and peace
>
>
>Frankly, it's rather simple, in the long term peace will only be achieved
>by eliminating the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of
>murder. If whole regions of the world remain in despair and grow in
>hatred, they will be the recruiting grounds for terror, and that terror
>will stalk America.
>To resort to calling people as 'hateful' for making such an argument is
>wrong.
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Yours,
Brad DeLong