>Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:04:08 -0700 >To: "Austin, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [PEN-L:17980] Re: RE: Evidence against bin Laden > >At 07:47 AM 10/03/2001 -0500, you wrote: >>The Taliban is a >>brutal atavistic and patriarchal regime. > >so is the Saudi Arabian regime -- a force that has financed the Taliban -- >but Saudi Arabia is an ally of the US. We should also remember that the US >helped create this "brutal atavistic and patriarchal regime." If the US >supported it, how can it be bad, from a "wave the flag" perspective? > >>The al Qaeda network and bin Laden >>are international criminals. > >So are the clique of Cuban-Americans in Miami who bombed airliners filled >with civilians in order to express their hate for Castro. But the US >protects and has worked with that clique. It also supported Jonas Savimbi >in Angola and RENAMO in Mozambique, two extremely bloody terrorist >organizations. > >In fact, the US elite should be seen as a bunch of "international >criminals" because they bombed civilian targets in Serbia & Iraq, among >other places. > >But strictly speaking, there are no "international criminals" because >strictly speaking there is no international law. A law that is honored >mostly in its breach is not truly a law.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
