Al Quaeda? We could always have shown the evidence we had to the Taleban, and allowed a trial in a neutral country. After all if we're sop convinced we're right it wouldn't have hurt. Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
or is it just that you think there's nowhere sufficiently neutral? Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
Like law matters an ounce in international relations! Like anyone would trust the verdict! Like al-Qaida wouldn't fight to the death against anyone who tried to arrest them! Like you could turn over evidence without compromising vast amounts of intelligence! Like the Americans would put their indepence in the hands of some international organization, whithout any kind of that precious legitimacy!
Et cetera ad infinitum. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Like law matters an ounce in international relations!
The core of the matter. Might makes right.
On this basis, terrorism, genocide and anything the fuck else you like is legal.
Insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting different results.
Vicious idiots and arrogant fools.
t! Like al-Qaida wouldn't fight to the death against anyone who tried to arrest them!
Like you could turn over evidence without compromising vast amounts of intelligence!
Step one might be to stop doing all the stuff that enables them to recruit new members. Like feeding the House of Saud jillions of dollars so they can run a reactionary government and harbor a huge population of unemployable young men. Like not arming and funding the Taliban in the first place as part of a previous crackpot plan to kick the Russians out of Afghanistan. Like not subsidizing western agriculture to the point where the third world farmers have to sell drugs to us to make any money. Like not invading a country because the ruler "tried to kill my daddy" despite the pleas of practically every other country.
With the current strategy, we're creating enemy soldiers faster than we can kill them.
But in top of that, after 9/11 some people needed killing. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
so whenever there was an IRA attack in the UK, it needed the RAF to drop a large bomb somewhere near the houses of supporters of NORAID? Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
This is a pretty interesting comment. First off, the whole revenge thing is not exactly, you know, whatever. Secondly, if you want to kill people in revenge, you could choose between the perps, or their families, or maybe the (Saudi) government that provided their inspiration. But the U.S. decided to go after Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11.
Thirdly, there is a question of appropriate levels of response. In 9/11 there were about 3000 American fatalities, some of them more awful than others, and all televised (repeatedly). In Iraq so far we have killed over 3000 American soldiers, and wounded about 10,000 (and "wounded" in modern language essentially means "killed" because the minor sort of flesh wounds that used to pump up the casualty figures are mostly avoided because of the widespread use of body armor, the current wounded have no arms, legs, or faces), and we don't count mental wounds or long-term health problems among the casualties. So the true American total casualty figures are certainly over 20,000 people. And then we have killed somewhere between 100,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqis, depending on whose numbers you want to use. So the current response ratio to 9/11 is around, say, using 600,000:3000, about 200:1.
Is that enough revenge killing yet?
Migeru:
"The war is wrong" "3,000 Americans died on 9/11" At that time, the body count in Iraq was reported to be 30,000. "10 times more people have already died in Iraq. Is that not enough for you?" "Whatever it takes to make America safe"
"The war is wrong"
"3,000 Americans died on 9/11"
At that time, the body count in Iraq was reported to be 30,000.
"10 times more people have already died in Iraq. Is that not enough for you?"
"Whatever it takes to make America safe"
