Re: [A-List] Reprisal

[Andre Gunder Frank <franka@xxxxxxx>]

jon writes:
Comments of this nature are being expressed widely by the Left concerning
what sort of terrorist backlash/reprisal is in store for the US because of

 well, i dunno about the left, but in the US  Attn. Gen Ashcroft - the
most right wing obscurantis even in that gang - has said so repeately,
already before the attack on Afgh. So have mnay others, Senators
inteviwed. one was asked by interviewer - doesn't it concern you that
this may lead to... and he answerd  that doesnt bather me at all..

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, caissa wrote:

> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 06:36:07 -0400
> From: caissa <caissa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [A-List] Reprisal
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> It took the British ruling class several decades to learn that the only way to stop the City of London's banks and exchanges being blown up was to talk with the IRA, because it was impossible to stop them by military and secret police methods alone.
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> Comments of this nature are being expressed widely by the Left concerning what sort of terrorist backlash/reprisal is in store for the US because of its massive use of force since 9/11 (not to mention its already pervasive, destructive foreign policy).  There seems to be the belief that it will only make the US a more likely target in the future, in essence making it a more dangerous rather than more secure place to live.
>
> In light of that, I thought you might find a comment expressed the other night on CBC radio of interest. I can't remember the author's name, but he just wrote a book called Holy War Inc.  It was also noted he was one of the very few westerners ever to interview Osama bin Laden. He and Peter Arnet conducted the interview about four years ago.
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> One of the final things he was asked in the interview concerned the very question of US security in light of the massive use of American military force. Did he believe the US would be safer, she asked. She was clearly taken aback when he definitively expressed his belief they would. He said the US accepts small scale terrorism as "the cost of doing business."  But he felt the sophisticated, larger scale operations would be eliminated.
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> jon
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