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Evenhanded
9/6/2002 (11:52) |
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Just for a moment forget about WHAT happened on 11 September and try to analyse WHY 11 September happened. The USA is trying to 'seek and punish' the perpetrators but has ended up killing many innocent civilans in Afghanistan. Of course if Osama bin Laden had anything to do with this event, he appears to have escaped and by all accounts Al Qaida, a product of CIA, has largely escaped unscathed and is thriving in Pakistan. USA is now about to do the same in Iraq. Whether Saddam Hussain is deposed, killed or captured remains to be seen but the vast majority of dead in Iraq will be civilians. Just as USA wants to seek and punish the 'perpetrators' of the attack on 11 September, the people who were responsible for 11 September may have wanted to 'punish' the system and the country that has caused them to be so desperate. They end up targeting the symbols of such a nation, namely the symbols of capitalism, the pentagon and possibly the White House. However unlike USA with it's limitless military power, that the USA has used with impunity, the 'perpetrators' of the crime on 11 September did not have the same resources so they chose the symbols rather than the 'chase the man' responsible for their misery.
There is no question that the people who committed this crime were desperate for the world to 'hear what they had to say'. Over decades the plight of Palestinians, Egyptians, Libyans, Saudis, Iraqis and Lebanese had been totally ignored by US and its allies and they have steadfastly supported Israel in every thing that Israel has done. The double standards that USA has adopted when it comes to Israel vis a vis Palestinians is blatantly obvious when you look at it critically. There are numerous resolutions of UN since 1967 demanding that Israel withdraws from Paletinian lands and dismantle the illegal settlements but there has never been any enforcement of those resolutions by USA. However when it comes to Arab states, they are 'made' to adhere to UN resolutions. Even those actions that are not sanctioned by UN are followed with impunity. The UN never approved the so called 'no fly zone' over northern and sourther Iraq after the Gulf War. However US and British planes for the last 10 years have continued to bomb and kill Iraqi civilians without any UN mandate for them to control Iraqi airspace. For the Palestinians and Arabs talking and pleading has got them no where, so what else can they do????? Do you have any suggestions about how to solve this impasse?
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