On Nov 20, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Well, we then must ask: who gave a chance to those who blow up
> helpless civilians? We, among others, have. Juan Cole is decent
> enough to acknowledge that responsibility.
Eh? Where did Cole acknowledge his own deep and crushing personal responsibility?
>
> On 11/20/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>> Juan Cole reports a motive for the bombing of the day laborers:
>>
>> > Al-Hayat says that a Sunni Arab guerrilla cell claimed that it
>> > carried out the Hilla bombing in revenge for the kidnapping last
>> > Tuesday of Sunni employees from the ministry of higher education.
>> It defies comment, really. Except to say I feel really guilty that I
>> caused this.