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"What is
certain is that I have serious doubts that CASI
writers are peace-loving or care about "the children.". What is certain is that it appears that CASI writers only care about attacking the United States, and civilians be damned (as long as the victims are American)." Killing
innocent people is murder, whether it's US firemen/janitors or Iraqi
children/Palestinians/Afghan women and children. I condemn it. Let us say
that this attack was carried out as a form of resistance to US plicies in
the Middle East(which, it must be stressed, is not yet proven). If we
now simply go after the people who did this and ignore(ie continue) the
Western violence in the Middle East - for example, sanctions, bombings against
Iraq, and repression of the Palestinians - ignore, in short, Western mass
murder, then we will just reinforce the conditions which led to
the attack in the first place. This will be all the more true if the response
involves killing innocent people. Isn't this the time to assert that we all
matter just as much as each other?
In solidarity and sympathy,
Tim
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