Hey, it could be worse. I'm rehearsing "Candide" now, and I had "What a day, what a day, for an auto-da-fe" running through my head all day yesterday.
Liz ONCE AGAIN IN MY CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED SIGNATURE ROLE AS THE OLD LADY!
>From: Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> > > > Mike:> probably because the attack was not directly on those killed but, >on > > our country. as with any act of war, until the conflict is resolved, >there > > is potential for more being killed for the same purpose. as for the > > international support, as W. said "you're either with us or, against >us."< > > >I don't accept this argument. To say that the 9/11 attacks were attacks on >anything other than buildings, planes, and the people in them - i.e., to >say that they were attacks on America - is to grant a legitimacy to Al >Quaeda that it simply does not have. Al Quaeda is a loosely-organized >group of individual psychopaths. They are murderers, vandals, and >hijackers. As such, they are able to murder, vandalise, and hijack planes. >They are NOT able to attack nation-states, or to declare war. They are NOT >legitimate national entities, and as such, their acts were and will always >be the acts of groups of individual criminals, that can only target >individual victims - collective, admittedly, but still individual victims. > >Karen Mercedes >
Elizabeth Finkler San Jose, California mightymezzo@h... http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
We all live in a place called "23 skiddoo." --John Prine
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