a "just war"?

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

> As for refuting Carroll's arguments, Michael Kelly does a fine job.
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25195-2001Nov27.html
> 
>

It seems to me that the most valid point Carroll makes - and which Kelly
does not address - is: What would happen if other countries did the same
kind of things the Americans so blithely do?
US-based Cuban terrorists in Florida have for more than 40 years carried
out sabotage, murder and other terrorist acts against Cuba. Would it be
a "just war" if the Cubans - or their old Soviet allies during the cold
war - had bombed Washington in retaliation, vowed to drag American
citizens out of the country to try them at secret military tribunals
with no defense or  no possiblity of appeal, if the Cubans decided to
get the American President dead or alive, if he refused to deliver the
exiled Cubans to Habana justice?
Or if the Panamanians or the Grenadians or the Nicaraguans or the
Guatemalans or the Colombians did to the US what you did to them?
If China decided to punish pro-Tibetan or pro-Turkestan groups
advocating armed resistance to Chinese rule? If the British bombed
Boston to get at all those financing the IRA? If the Communist Polish
government had in 1979 bombed the supporters of Solidarity? If the
Afghan government of 1980 had had the means to go against everyone
supporting mujaheddin terrorists? If Milosevic could punish everyone
supporting UCK terrorists in Kosovo?

The list goes on and on, but you get the point. Just try to picture
someone else doing everything you are doing and consider if it would be
"just".

Then perhaps you will begin to understand why people in the world regard
you the way they do. As a Laotian journalist told me just the other
week: We are all against terrorism. But the Americans have absolutely no
idea of the depth of the feelings they are provoking in Asians.