[lbo-talk] The linguistic bubble!

[C. G. Estabrook]

Of course Carrol is right.  George Galloway had a phrase for
it, when he said that the bombings were indefensible, but not
inexplicable.  --CGE

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:29:11 +0100
>From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>  
>Subject: [lbo-talk] The linguistic bubble!  
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>
>Carrol:
>
>"It may or may not have been an outrageous act, but (on the
model of
>Spain) it was obviously neither random nor senseless... 
>
>I think I must be missing something here.
>How is planting a bomb on buses and trains any less random or
senseless than 
>bombing Hamburg or Tokyo?
>Do you mean it killed less people? Or that it was more rational?
>The first is incontestable, but the second seems insupportable.
>
>Does anybody know the *aims* of the bombers?
>What popular constituency stands behind them?
> ...