[lit-ideas] Re: Europe's September 11 ?
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:56:34 EST
It's not only the numbers ..... the reason and motive do not remotely
parallel (as I understand it) 9/11. I don't understand the analogy. You might
as
well call a horrific earthquake a country's 9/11. 9/11 has come to mean a
terrible tragedy killing a large percentage of people?
Julie
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Date:3/12/2004 10:07:43 PM Central Standard Time
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It isn't really "Europe's September 11". 270 people died in the Lockerbie
bombing in 1988, but if that happened now, I wouldn't call it "Europe's
September 11".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3506352.stm
Judy Evans, Cardiff (UK)
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From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Europe's September 11 ?
> --- Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Omar and John are over-reacting. After all the
> > attack
> > was timed three days before the election, and it is
> > quite normal to assume that terrorists have a
> > political motive. So I don't see what's so Bushie
> > about calling it an attack on democracy, although it
> > may be jumping to conclusions.
>
> *So the terrorists may be trying to influence the
> result of the elections. (I don't really see why they
> would want to do that, unless they were sent by Aznar
> himself, but let's assume they do.) But that would
> hardly qualify as an assault on democracy, rather it
> would be an attempt to use or manipulate democracy.
>
> > Personally I found the Madric massacre particulary
> > distressing because it was simply that, a massacre
> > like the Bali bombing without any symbolic target
> > (such as WTC) or purpose (like terrorist attacks in
> > Iraq.)
>
> *Here you seem to advance your own interpretation,
> which is different from the official, but equally
> shaky. We don't really know at this point if there is
> a purpose or what it is. Suggesting that such things
> are done for no reason at all always strikes me as
> improbable. The Bali bombings were probably intended
> to destabilize the Indonesian secular government, and
> they were probably aimed at Australia as well. (Many
> of the victims were Australian tourists.)
>
> (snip)
> >
> > Ultimately the world we live in is secure because
> > vast
> > majority of people are decent human beings.
>
> *That is, I think, a good point. Most people naturally
> feel moral repulsion at such acts. Unfortunately, the
> rhetoric about "assault on democracy," which crudely
> politicizes and ideologizes the event, leaves little
> space for such natural human reactions.
>
> O.K.
>
>
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