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To: Fred Levine who wrote (680)4/19/2002 4:08:50 PM
From: runes   of 786
 
Fred -

W/ regard Europe -
...All of my European acquaintances expressed their shock and grief at the WTC as did most of Europe at the time. And they have given us both moral support and military/security support because of that attack.
...However I agree that the attack is the result of US policies. Specifically, if we had not been supporting Israel, if we hadn't chased Iraq out of Kuwait, if we didn't have soldiers on Saudi soil - then the WTC wouldn't have been attacked. These are policies that we chose to pursue for good reason. I supported those policies at the time and I support them now (with some caveats and reservations).
...And I am prepared to accept that there will be some nasty consequences to our policies - even the noble ones.

...As for not sharing the outrage - that doesn't bother me. When I suffer an outrage I look to my friends for sympathy and for support. But I also rely on them for their good judgement at times when my judgement is impaired by anger and rage. I'd hate to think of what my life would be like if my friends egged me on every time I wanted to smash someone in the face. Can you say - three strikes?

...As for Israel and Palestine - let me tackle that in a separate post - I am about to take on the entire board on that one - pro-I and pro-P alike. (Thankfully the market is frozen by options expirations today).
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