[PEN-L:6784] People's Daily Commentary

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Barkley Rosser:
>      Ooooooh.  Well, if His Excellency, President
>Jiang Zemin declares  that "mistaken bombing"
>or "accident" is "prevarication" and "can never be
>accepted" as explanations, that certainly makes
>it so.  I am very impressed.
>      BTW, let us be very clear that "explanation" is
>most definitely not the same think as "justification."
>There is no justification for what has happened.

1. I'm happy that most ordinary Chinese people (both those in China and
here in America) seem to think that the bombing was purposeful. Their
understanding of this bombing has brought back the language of
anti-imperialism among the masses and appears to fire up people enough to
mount large + militant protests.

2. While explanation is not the same as justification on this list, it is
obvious that when USA/NATO spokesmen offer an 'explanation,' they intend it
to be taken as justification.

Yoshie