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To: abuelita who wrote (6181)	10/14/2001 4:40:56 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104154

Rose, I say this piece in the Sunday Times today... could be the one? October 8, 2001. The bombing begins, screams today's headline of the normally restrained Guardian. Battle joined, echoes the equally cautious Herald Tribune, quoting George W Bush. But with whom is it joined? And how will it end? How about with Osama Bin Laden in chains, looking more serene and Christlike than ever, arranged before a tribune of his vanquishers with Johnny Cochrane to defend him? The fees won't be a problem, that's for sure. Or how about with a Bin Laden blown to smithereens by one of those clever bombs we keep reading about that kill terrorists in caves but don't break the crockery? Or is there a solution I haven't thought of that will prevent us from turning our arch enemy into an arch martyr in the eyes of those for whom he is already semi-divine? Yet we must punish him. We must bring him to justice. Like any sane person, I see no other way. Send in the food and medicines, provide the aid, sweep up the starving refugees, maimed orphans and body parts - sorry, "collateral damage" - but Bin Laden and his awful men, we have no choice, must be hunted down. But unfortunately what America longs for at this moment, even above retribution, is more friends and fewer enemies. And what America is storing up for herself, and so are we Brits, is yet more enemies; because after all the bribes, threats and promises that have patched together the rickety coalition, we cannot prevent another suicide bomber being born each time a misdirected missile wipes out an innocent village, and nobody can tell us how to dodge this devil's cycle of despair, hatred and - yet again - revenge. ... Full article: sunday-times.co.uk