Date sent: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 22:32:47 +0100 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Richard Twine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: fire with fire??????? > yikes i said i was going to shut up but forgive me this one mail > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 98-09-07 14:19:36 EDT, Miguel writes: > > > > << The big problem is that the U.S. used terrorist measures to respond to > > terrorism. They could have been a lot more specific in who they went > > after, rather than killing innocent civilians. This was no different than > > a terrorist who plants a bomb to take out a certain person, not caring > > that everyone else in the area is at risk too. > > >> > > Hi! > > > > I contend here that they were merely fighting fire with fire! > > angela! this is a terrible mis-use of naomi wolf's phrase. do you think she meant > it to mean murder? there's another phrase which i think is more apt (if a little > over-used), and that is: > "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" - audre lorde. > > > They needed to > > get a strong message out to the terrorists - unfortunately killing innocent > > civilians in the process. How else can you reach terrorists? Do you think > > they have cell phones? Somebody call them and them we want democracy, freedom > > and peace - stop the bloodshed with them! > > > > Love! > > Angela > I recommend "The Demon Lover" by Robin Morgan as an aid to understand the enthralled fascination some progressives have with terrorists. She does a phenomenological deconstruction of the pathology, much as Andrea Dworkin did with militant fundamentalist feminine submissivism in "Right Wing Women."
