Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:24:24 +0100 Subject: media responses to 9/11 All As time passes the responses to the events are becoming both more serious and also more farcical. On the serious side there is the http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266289,00.html A. Roy piece in the Guardian today. (Go out and buy a book of hers to celebrate the piece). This is a reasonable representation of the more considered responses to the situation as a memory of recent history appears... "Now Bush and Bin Laden have even begun to borrow each other's rhetoric. Each refers to the other as "the head of the snake". Both invoke God and use the loose millenarian currency of good and evil as their terms of reference. Both are engaged in unequivocal political crimes. Both are dangerously armed - one with the nuclear arsenal of the obscenely powerful, the other with the incandescent, destructive power of the utterly hopeless. The fireball and the ice pick. The bludgeon and the axe. The important thing to keep in mind is that neither is an acceptable alternative to the other...." On the farcical side people are talking of the Afghans having highly technological weapons (biological and chemical) as if they had a scientific infrastructure capable of building such things... regards sdv
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"Now Bush and Bin Laden have even begun to borrow each other's rhetoric. Each refers to the other as "the head of the snake". Both invoke God and use the loose millenarian currency of good and evil as their terms of reference. Both are engaged in unequivocal political crimes. Both are dangerously armed - one with the nuclear arsenal of the obscenely powerful, the other with the incandescent, destructive power of the utterly hopeless. The fireball and the ice pick. The bludgeon and the axe. The important thing to keep in mind is that neither is an acceptable alternative to the other...."
On the farcical side people are talking of the Afghans having highly technological weapons (biological and chemical) as if they had a scientific infrastructure capable of building such things...
regards
sdv