cry of the banshee wrote:
If he is not guilty, then obviously he should be freed; but if he was even a small player, he should have been put to death. He was released on grounds of "compassion", not as the result of an appeal. He was greeted as a hero in Libya. If he is guilty, that is a travesty of justice; those people aboard that plane had nothing to do with whatever his motives were, and probably had never even heard about them.
given that he isn't guilty and couldn't possibly be guilty, then this entire section is moot.
cry of the banshee wrote:
I have no doubt that the CIA is so dirty that they make the KGB look like Boy Scouts, but at what point do you feel that civilians that have nothing to do with governmental affairs should be targets? Don't tell me "we are all accomplices" because you know as well as I do that the government is untouchable by the civilian population.
Of course I am aware of that. The individuals who have actual influence in governmental affairs are few and far between and there were probably very few, if any of them in the Twin Towers that day. My point was that the government of this country has been acting in such a way that invites armed response for a very long time, and to redouble the act in the face of armed response makes absolutely no sense, and continues to invite such armed response.
My point was that the things America has done are far worse than
anything Al-Qaeda can lay claim to and the response from Al-Qaeda, while hardly morally justifiable in light of the civilians that were killed by it, is hardly unexpected when you consider American policy in the Middle East and towards Arabs.
cry of the banshee wrote:
So, since it (9/11) was a non-state entity that attacked a civilian target, would it be more acceptable if civilian mobs armed with shotguns, baseball bats etc took their "pound of flesh" out of the local Afghan / Saudi / muslim populace after it was discovered that the perpetrators were Saudi and tied to the Afgahnistan Taliban?
Eye for an eye.
Amusingly enough that would have killed far less people than the War On Terror has thus far and probably would have inspired ultimately less radical Salafi/Twelver fundamentalists around the world to start/ramp up the insurgencies.
cry of the banshee wrote:
What are your thoughts on Timothy McVeigh?
libertarian wacko who took it upon himself to kill a few fingernails of the state.
Interesting.
