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Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts

2/26/2011

The Terrorism Tangle

Moral Maze Time. Does Ghadaffi's crucial support for the ANC make him less of a monster or Nelson Mandela less of a hero? 
If you believed every accusation of terrorism, here was a terrorist leader providing support for a terrorist organisation which was fighting a terrorist state which Britain was supporting.
So who's the terrorist now? And who are its real backers?
Since the world is doing nothing to help the Libyan people, perhaps the people can do something. Ghadaffi's family owns houses in London. Squat them now.
If the bankers won't freeze their accounts, at least a few charity-mercenaries can reclaim something for the Libyan people. Big Society? You asked for it.

7/27/2006

The Moral Surrender. 9/11 Attacks Excused By Israel.

Only those without morals can fail to see the obscenity of the slaughter in Lebanon.
Taking place beyond their range, it is not justified by the Hezbollah missile attacks. It is a conspicuous act of savagery which Israel will, sadly, come to regret. Opinion in Lebanon already seems to be swinging towards Hezbollah, rather than against, as hoped for in Jerusalem. Presumably, it is only the bombings which are preventing substantial desertions from the Lebanese army to Hezbollah.
But even worse, by being a massacre, it endangers all of us by its surrender of any moral position. By the morals on display, the 9/11 bombers were totally justified. And so at a stroke, the West's whole moral case in 'The War Against Terror' has been undermined by Israel.
And so terrorists the world over will feel more justified in their actions. And naturally, there will be more of them.
Israel, and the rest of the western world, will have to learn that winning this war will take more than bombs, and that killing your enemies' hatred is much more difficult than killing his body.