some thoughts on day 1

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

If
> this attack is in any way traced to Palestinian groups, they can forget
> about EVER having a homeland.  The term Palestinian will be history if that
> happens,
> and that is very sad.
> 
>

Part of the problem is that many Americans seem to think that the 3
percent of the world population that lives in the US has a Godgiven
right to decide over the fate of the remaining 97 percent.
In 20 years US economic and military hegemony will be history, when
China replaces USA as the economic giant of the world.
At the same time you have a lust for revenge, seen in your capital
punishment and an eye-for-an-eye ideology which is quite strange in a
country that proclaims itself Christian.
Just under the civilized surface is very often a primitive kind of
racism. The Usenet groups soc.culture.afghanistan and soc.culture.arabic
have been practically taken over by Americans loudly proclaiming "all
Arabs are vermin and must be eradicated - down to the last children and
women" and "nuke the sand-niggers". See for yourself.
I should recommend reading Sven Lindqvist's excellent books "Exterminate
all the Brutes" and "A History of Bombing" about racism in Western
thought and politics.
All this is no defense for mindless acts of barbarism. But it might be
useful to consider that there were also innocent victims, also orphaned
children and widows in Indochina, where Americans killed millions. The
attacks on Iraq to punish Saddam Hussein (formerly paid and supported by
the CIA), has resulted in half a million dead children. Even small
operations like the bombing of Panama City to get at one man - Noriega,
another former CIA employee gone bad - probably killed more innocent
civilians than the Tuesday terrorism.

Arne