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  • From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: They can't see why they are hated
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 07:57:29 -0400


From The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,551036,00.html

Excerpts:
"As Mahatma Gandhi famously remarked when asked his opinion of western
civilisation, it would be a good idea. Since George Bush's father
inaugurated his new world order a decade ago, the US, supported by its
British ally, bestrides the world like a colossus. Unconstrained by any
superpower rival or system of global governance, the US giant has
rewritten the global financial and trading system in its own interest;
ripped up a string of treaties it finds inconvenient; sent troops to
every corner of the globe; bombed Afghanistan, Sudan, Yugoslavia and
Iraq without troubling the United Nations; maintained a string of
murderous embargos against recalcitrant regimes; and recklessly thrown
its weight behind Israel's 34-year illegal military occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian intifada rages.

"If, as yesterday's Wall Street Journal insisted, the east coast carnage
was the fruit of the Clinton administration's Munich-like appeasement of
the Palestinians, the mind boggles as to what US Republicans imagine to
be a Churchillian response.

. . . .

"All this must doubtless seem remote to Americans desperately searching
the debris of what is expected to be the largest-ever massacre on US
soil - as must the killings of yet more Palestinians in the West Bank
yesterday, or even the 2m estimated to have died in Congo's wars since
the overthrow of the US-backed Mobutu regime. "What could some political
thing have to do with blowing up office buildings during working hours?"
one bewildered New Yorker asked yesterday.

"Already, the Bush administration is assembling an international
coalition for an Israeli-style war against terrorism, as if such
counter-productive acts of outrage had an existence separate from the
social conditions out of which they arise. But for every "terror
network" that is rooted out, another will emerge - until the injustices
and inequalities that produce them are addressed."

But read the whole thing.

TaB




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