some thoughts on day 1

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

> 30,000 body bags have been requested by NYC......I'll bet that
> fewer than five will contain the remains of military personell, the
> rest will be civilians....THere are reports that 100 japanese, 75
> brits, and numerous Brazilians are among them......take a look at
> the list of companies form all over the world which had staff in
> those buildings....the target may have been the US, but the whole
> world suffered casualties...I say, let the world seek justice.....
> 
> love,
> cfa

50 Danes are also missing. That may sound like a small number, but we
are a small country.
And I also have friends in NYC whom I haven't heard from since the
attack.
So I certainly understand your grief and your rage.
I would applaud as much as anyone if Bin Laden and the others are taken
to the international court in Hague. If they are assassinated in stead,
I certainly wouldn't weep over them, but I'm afraid to make them
martyrs. 
Any concerted effort against terrorism also has my full support.
It's not a question of just sitting down smiling and turning the other
cheek. I just don't believe in killing innocent people in order to
punish the guilty. Civilians in Afghanistan have suffered from 23 years
of bombings and attacks. I was in Kabul in the good old hippie days in
'67 and remember a wonderful country and hospitable, kind people.
You don't get your dead back by using the same methods as the
terrorists. You just poison yourself morally. 
It must be possible to punish the guilty without massacring the
innocent.