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

[Otto]

"...und bin ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und doch das
Gute schafft."
Mephisto somewhere in Goethe's "Faust", which I do not have at hand.

Doug, I don't believe that David thinks that "American lives are worth more"
than other people's lives. I think bombing out the Taliban offers the
opportunity to save a lot of lives in the upcoming winter that would have
been definitely lost. So I disagree with David that nothing good can come
out of 9/11 -- some good already has happened. The woman with the eight
daughters you reported about the other day who had lost her two sons in the
last winter really does have a chance to get her kids through now.

I've seen pictures of a fairground at Kabul, wooden carousels driven by
manpower. Nothing our technical engineers would permit but it works. May the
Afghan children have a little fun.

To give an answer to Richard:
Did Americans really think that they're invulnerable? I question that. I
doubt that it's been "necessary" to remind them of their vulnerability,
definitely not the way it has been done. The way it has been put by those
"respondents outside" the US is very offending and reminds me of the
"rejoicing Palestinians" -- absolutely inappropriate.

Otto

Doug Millison:
> 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.'"?