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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:28:26 +0100

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Workers of the world unite!

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Goya said the sleep of reason produces monsters.

We've heard all about attacks on Democracy and all freedom loving people.

and so on. Maybe the US government's thinking is so misshapen that it

actually believes its own frenzied, jingoistic statements? The bombings of

New York were callous acts, but so too were the US bombings of Sudan. With

no entirely credible pretext, Clinton saw fit to destroy half its

pharmaceutical supplies and kill unknown numbers of people (the US blocked

an inquiry at the UN on the numbers dead).

Will we have a Day of Mourning for these victims? No. Why? Quite simply,

whether we care to believe it or not, we in the west have double standards.

Humanitarian reasons allow intervention for Kosovo, but not for the Kurds in

Turkey. The United States has long employed terrorism in pursuit of its own

ends. The list is long.sanctions that have devastated Cuba and Iraq,

assassination attempts on Castro, Chile, Cambodia, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The US harbour a terrorist responsible for blowing up a Cuban airplane in

the 70s and have refused to send him back to Cuba for trial.

Now is a time for self-criticism and self-scrutiny among the major Western

powers, not a time for blindly lashing out at foreign enemies.

Expect those sad scenes we saw in Palestine of a minority celebrating the

attack be repeated by Americans when some poor under developed country is

bombed back into the Stone Age.

Regards

Niall Cullinane.

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