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15 Sep 2001 The Times : There is a saying in the Middle East: what happens in Afghanistan decides the course of history. And another one. He describes Afghanistan as I remember it, as well.
Two voices of Reason in today's papers.
The bigger they come the harder they fall MATTHEW PARRIS Instead we should ask what makes a Muslim terrorist. It is rage. Can we understand the rage? Surely we can. Many in the Middle East, including many who are not extremists, resent American involvement there, propping up favoured states and undermining others. Few Muslims — even among those America supports — can be comfortable with this; many are angered, and a hard core are enraged. Americans are blind to barbarians at their gates - JONATHAN CLARK In their reaction to these attacks, they will be what history has made them Will the graphic exposure of America to terrorism result in less funding by the americans of the IRA?
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things : But the Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first victims of the perpetrators.
[ 15-Sep-01 9:16am ] Vote.com is running a series of votes on things like "Should the US declare war on terrorists and the countries that harbour them". Scary reading when you find you're disagreeing with the majority.
[ 15-Sep-01 8:51am ] 14 Sep 2001 Calamitous Perspective : On the Bombings - Noam Chomsky Noam is always good for some thoughtful analysis.
[ 14-Sep-01 5:27pm ] Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws : In a floor speech on Thursday, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire) called for a global prohibition on encryption products without backdoors for government surveillance. Here we go again.
[ 14-Sep-01 2:41pm ] Wired DRM Error : Sorry - our DRM server's down. Please check back in 2006
13 Sep 2001 Guardian Unlimited | They can't see why they are hated : Shock, rage and grief there has been aplenty. But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, sacrificing their own lives in the process - or why the United States is hated with such bitterness, not only in Arab and Muslim countries, but across the developing world - seems almost entirely absent. This is an enormously difficult thing for the US to address. But address it they must, if they are to act to reduce the bloodshed in the world rather than increase it.
[ 13-Sep-01 2:53pm ] spiked-politics | Column | After the attack on America : Whoever the Bush administration does decide to retaliate against, we can be certain that it will cause more problems than it solves. Whether we are talking about the Balkans or the Middle East, the iron law of modern history appears to be that the more powerfully the USA and the West intervene, the worse matters become.
[ 13-Sep-01 8:30am ] 12 Sep 2001 The Register : FBI steps up Net surveillance, following terror attack And so it begins.
[ 12-Sep-01 2:42pm ] I'm seeing way too many posts all over the web for an instant response in retaliation. This is a completely understandable emotional reaction. But think on this:-
[ 12-Sep-01 7:30am ] 11 Sep 2001 http://page.blogger.com/search_attack.pyra
Blogs mentioning the attack. [ 11-Sep-01 9:07pm ] The lockdown is starting in the UK as well. Flights over London banned. Increased security. Private flights banned.
[ 11-Sep-01 8:17pm ] Batten down the hatches. All US borders closed. All planes on the ground. Armed guards (with Stingers?) round all US embassies, worldwide. All US financial markets shut down.
Are other countries potential targets? In the UK, Canary Wharf has been evacuated. [ 11-Sep-01 5:31pm ] As I heard about the WTC, I was installing XPlanet. Appropriate, to remind me where we all live.
[ 11-Sep-01 5:16pm ] This is why I'm scared to death of what the USA will do next.
[ 11-Sep-01 4:23pm ] It's still going on in the USA, but I'm beginning to wonder what the fall out of this could be. I'm feeling this quite personally as I have a flight booked to DC for Monday next. Inevitably the economic fallout is already happening. Brent crude is going up, the Euro is going up and the FTSE is heading down. Then we have to wonder about the implications for US foreign policy and for their immigration policies.
[ 11-Sep-01 3:25pm ] The New York World Trade Center is on fire. Wow! Two planes flew into the top, one into each tower. The second appears to have been a 737. I'd suggest a link but every news web site is currently overloaded.
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