"good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable"

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Doug Millison asking David Morris:
"So you're saying that American lives are worth more
than Afghani lives, I guess..."

Of course. He's been saying it for months.  It's at the very heart of our
problems with him (and so so many  like him).
Imagine it, Doug, not one American polled considered the attack on
Afghanistan an overreaction.  How would you explain that?
Are we just cold-blooded, or are we so manipulated by
the image the media sells us, we can't see ourselves as we are, or even as
we appear to others?  We're an arrogant people; no other way for me to see
it.  I don't wish tragedy, or justify it, but I think it's "good that
Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable."  When we're too
arrogant to learn from our mistakes, we're forced to learn the hard way.


----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: "good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable"


> So, "Morris" is saying, nothing good can come from the Sep 11 tragedy, but
> we can smash Afghanistan to bits and permit the  tragedy of civilian
deaths
> in that country because it's good to go after bin Laden, no matter who
gets
> hurt in the process?  So you're saying that American lives are worth more
> than Afghani lives, I guess, at least when it comes to choosing the means
> to achieve the Bush Administration's foreign policy goals.  Sadly, I
expect
> that a lot of people in the US really do believe that's true.
>
>
> Morris:
> The obvious answer is the cause of this new awareness which can in no way
be
> called "good."
>
> Richard Stock <rstock00 at yahoo.com>
> Why is it such a bad thing that "two-thirds or more of respondents outside
> the United States said it was 'good that Americans now know what it's like
> to be vulnerable.'"?