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To: hcm1943 who wrote (20492)	9/11/2001 5:42:30 PM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 62547

hcm there are a lot of ways of showing grief and concern, but I hardly think that you are on the right track. If we had a more even handed foreign policy vis a vis the Palestinians and others we might not be suffering this mess. US arrogance has been costly. GWB has unilaterally walked out an an assortment of treaties and agreements that do not suit him. Recently we lost our seat in the UN Human Rights committee and one other committee because of arrogance. These attacks are very likely due to our long practiced views of the Arab world ... bomb Iraq at leisure, ignore the Palestinians ... send emissaries all over the Middle East telling them to pump oil for us ... etc.. Hardly endearing behavior. Lunatic elements are bound to react to such treatment in crazy ways ... such as today. That said, I am mad as I have ever been and do hope that there is a decent accounting in store for these jerks ... and I do not mean a few years in a US jail.

To: hcm1943 who wrote (20492)	9/11/2001 6:07:08 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 62547

The world's worst terrorist attack was on Russia by Germany in world war II. 26 million died. But the difference was that it was drawn out and between for the better part, armies. Here it is of a different nature, not declared, surreptitious and devious and hits a fair number of civilians. We don't know who did it. The usual suspects, of course are denying it like crazy. Can't say I blame them. Arafat sounds credible. The Afghanis not so credible. "I feel your pain", directed toward "American children", seems like there is a message somewhere in it, not too thickly veiled. A similar group who was credited with the WTC bombing attempt a few years back had something to say in denial about "enjoying american food and water", as to why they would not be involved. As Woodward and Bernstein said, a denial that is not a denial is not a denial. So far, the Afghanis non denial denial is the closest thing to an admission. But this is still not knowledge. But the most recent trouble in the jalopy is where you look quickest to find the source of the noise when it surfaces again. We have no further to look than the recent Isreali rocket and other reprisal/pre-emptive attacks on Palestinian leadership. If these American attacks are reactive to that, then they certainly geared up fast. Could it be, when coupled with the fact that Bush and Powell were out of harm's way, a Pentagon spokesman saying "we were expecting something of this nature", and the pre-emptive attacks in Isreal being fairly frequent ... that the Isreali actions were to head off what they knew was building? In other words maybe the Israelis knew it was planned and were trying to head it off by attacking the planners. Whatever the cause and whatever the reaction it will not end terrorism or wars. It cannot lead to any good. But to do nothing is out of the question. The attack itself, if it leads to no resolution, has been pointless as well. It would appear that it is some kind of revenge. If it is for no other purpose than satifaction secretly taken by those vengeant, I can see this as no purposeful resolution for their cause. EC<:-}