From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 26 22:12:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C4A37B40C for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010927051213.ICPJ13121.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ATLANTA.threespace.com> for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:12:13 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010927003714.01819658@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:10:36 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: Another article, from the "other side" In-Reply-To: <20010926140502.I1370@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924170815.0180aee8@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924191808.0227cf28@threespace.com> <3BAFD532.6ED7A320@duth.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010926015428.01814630@threespace.com> <20010926125046.C1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926070519.A30531@blackhelicopters.org> <20010926132021.E1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't think any Americans have a problem asking the question "How could this man have gotten to the point of doing such a horrible thing?" (Quite the contrary, the news here is chock full of stories about the history of bin Laden and al Qaida.) The problem I have is the context in which you ask the question as if the answer should change the outrage we feel over the event. When bin Laden metes out his own brand of justice against the U.S. for occupying Saudi land, you say "The U.S. should seriously look at the policies that led to this attack." When the U.S. lines up to mete out it's justice against those who perpetrated the act, you cry Foul! and call us hotheaded. The two just don't jibe. Personally though, while I think it's possible to condemn U.S. foreign policy and terrorism against the U.S., I feel like I'm reading far too much of the former and far too little of the latter. --Chip Morton At 08:05 AM 9/26/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >And, on this list and elsewhere, it seems that too many Americans have >this idea that to understand the man and his motivations is to condone >the attacks. So they don't even want to know. I don't follow this. >Even if the only thing you read is pulp thriller fiction, isn't it >always considered important to understand the enemy? Isn't it even >possible to condemn the attacks and at the same time condemn the >policies that have led to such huge resentment in so many parts of the >world? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message