"wrong to kill Koreans, Chinese and Vietnamese"

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Sat Dec 15 06:04:21 CST 2001


MalignD at aol.com wrote (among other things I have no argument with):

> The civilian dead owe their deaths primarily to a government that knowingly
> provided haven to terrorists, invited the war, and used the civilians as
> human protection during the fighting.

This is like saying the civilians in the WTC owe their deaths primarily to the,
uh, shortcomings of US foreign policy. But in both cases there were individuals
who gave the orders and individuals who acted. These are the persons to be held
responsible, whatever the verdict might be in the long run.

Thomas




More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list