Hi everybody. Doug says: >In other words, no political debate, >please, we're economists?
>I don't get what your standards are, >Michael. More transparency, please! He's back! And he's right, IMHO! These are momentous issues that constrain the near term situation, including the economic situation. The discussion can become useless once everybody goes on repeating himherself. Not otherwise. Andrew Austin says: >Of course, they may get some things wrong. >But surely we are not prepared to make all this >out to be a conspiracy on the part of the >transnational >political-legal community. There is a string of terror >attacks during the 1990s linked to bin Laden. Why >ignore what is in front of our faces? IMO you're right. We must not be _that_ paranoid (although we are entitled to a minimum standard of transparency). OK. Let us not raise the legal or moral issue. But look at it from this perspective: 1/ This is America's war on terrorism (if I have to believe CNN). The best way to defeat an enemy is to isolate him. 2/ I live in Europe, like hundreds of millions of working people, very near to terrorist hearths (I don't know another word for it); and there are those Algerians, Kahsmirs, Indonesians, etc., that have been attacked by integrist terrorists. It is our interest of us all that Bin Laden is isolated. 3/ Think of all those Arab workers that are attracted by Bin Laden's propaganda. Think of Pakistan. If US/OTAN are or seem to be confiscating evidence, there's one more reason for them to join with him or some other form of bastard anti-imperialism. Manel _____________________________________________________________ Sign up for FREE email from TimorLeste.net at http://www.timorleste.net
