a "just war"?

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

(What would the Danes say if terrorists killed a number of us)


> and the national response to such an event would be?
> 
>

We certainly wouldn't be happy about it. We would condemn it in every
international forum we could find.
We wouldn't - and couldn't - bomb another country in retaliation. It
would be like San Marino declaring war on Italy.

Perhaps the world would be a better place if there were no great powers,
but only a lot of small countries. 

Perhaps it would be worse. I don't really know.

I am glad to hear that you have condemned US atrocities in Central
America all along. I know a lot of Americans who condemn the bombing in
Afghanistan right now.

But it is very depressing reading the official line, which seems to be
based on the underlying assumption that there are some rules for the US
and other rules for the rest of the world.

Even people abroad who consider themselves friends of America don't buy
that.