That Playboy nonsense

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Wed Jan 9 11:24:41 CST 2002


<< There are issues larger than Bin Laden at play here.  I do not know what 
they are, but I _do_ know that one man did not get up one morning and decide 
to blow up some towers. What I allude to is mass hysteria(Media) that is 
shaping the character of Bin Laden as we speak.  >>

It isn't your intent, but I think you trivialize the issue with these 
rhetorical generalities. Bin Laden didn't literally get up one morning etc., 
but the idea there is true, not false.  

A small number of very determined, not especially bright or powerful men with 
boxcutters highjacked four planes and caused vast carnage.  One needn't seek 
the blueprint of one's character our analyze the colors of one's painted 
journey to grasp that.  



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