On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
James A. Donald wrote:
... but Bin Laden's indictment not only mentions US troops in Saudi Arabia, but also the reconquest of Spain, the massacre committed by the crusaders in Jerusalem, and the failure of Americans to obey Shariah law.
J.A. Terranson
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, right? The US can go after BL for not following US [constitutional] law, so why can't he come after us for not following Shariah (or any other) law?
James A. Donald:
But these laws are not as like as geese and ganders. The US goes after Bin Laden for murdering people. Bin Laden goes after us for not accepting second class citizenship under Muslim rule.
J.A. Terranson
No. He goes after us for the very same reason: for [our] murdering of *hundreds of thousands* of people, both directly (Iraq) and by proxy (Israel).
What then is the reason for the murder of Afghans and Sudanese?
As much as I hate to followup to myself, I can't help this one: I just fucked up. In my earnest to provide a timely answer (at a moment when I am precisely *out* of any time whatsoever), I made the wrong choice by trying to reply at all. What came out was a single line of words which had concepts so compressed that they were lost amongst the very bits surrounding them: my one line flippant and idiotic looking answer is just meaningless, and pointless. I should not have given in to the urge to reply *now* just because I wanted to put *something* on the record before I could approach this properly (read: at lengths I didn't have available at this moment). I both apologize for this idiocy, and retract that crap answer I just foisted upon you and the rest of the readers - that I spewed it at all is embarrasing enough! I promise to answer this properly, but I'm afraid it'll have to wait till saturday for me to have the time to do it right (the way I *should* have done it three minutes ago, or else STFU). Sorry - you (as in the cosmic "you" as well as in "JAD") deserved better. Hell, so did I. Barf...
--digsig James A. Donald
Did that make any sense to anyone but me? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF "An ill wind is stalking while evil stars whir and all the gold apples go bad to the core" S. Plath, Temper of Time