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Breivik shows there is no solution to 9/11 : Comments

By Mark Christensen, published 7/9/2011

Ten years on 9/11 is an existential point that has grown no larger but can't be cured.

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We are approaching the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, which changed the world. Analysts observed although bin Laden was finally killed, he won major successes in his war against the U.S. "He asserted that the only way to drive the U.S. from the Muslim world was by drawing Americans into a series of small, expensive wars that would bankrupt them". Washington was bent on fulfilling bin Laden’s wishes was evident at once. There is every likelihood the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of Bin Laden, could have been undermined after 9/11. The “crime against humanity,” rightly called, could have been approached as a crime, with an international operation to apprehend the suspects. That was recognized, but no such idea was considered. In 2011, Bin Laden was killed in his compound by a raiding mission of SEALs, entering Pakistan by helicopter. After many stories were provided by the government and withdrawn, official reports made it clear the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law, beginning with the invasion itself. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the victim, as presumably could have been done by commandos facing little opposition except from his wife, according to the White House. The decision to kill bin Laden outright was the clearest illustration to date of a little-noticed aspect of the Obama administration's counterterror policy. Obama’s claim that “justice was done” is an “absurdity” that should have been obvious to a former professor of constitutional law. Washington never made public the evidence of its claim that Bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attacks. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to trial. Perhaps the rejection of the legal option of a trial reflects a difference between the moral culture of 1945 (Nuremberg Trials) and today. We are left with two choices: either Bush and associates are guilty of the “supreme international crime” including all the evils that followed, or we declare that the Nuremberg proceedings were a farce and the allies were guilty of judicial murder. Think about that!
Posted by Geoff of Perth, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 1:09:15 PM
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Ofcourse the bombing of the twin towers on 9/11 was an act of terrorism.

Ofcourse the American actions in Iraq as revealed by their own Pentagon papers and the Wikileaks show that it was the US who started the acts of terror. Terro begat terror. That's plain logic. What's wrong with that? Both are acts of terrorism.

The US of A cannot claim or expect immunity for its guilty actions around the world and not expect retalliation. Whoever rides on the tiger's back cannot get off.

It began what it cannot finish to its entire satisfaction. It must be able to distinguish between justice from revenge. It should understand the Islamic ethical code.An eye for an eye is OT stuff the Jews know full well. The Israeli actions reflect the American. Anyone surprised? Israel is the 52nd state of the USA even if it happens to be located in the Middle East.

Hit someone and then cry foul if you are hit in return as an act of self-defence, then call that terrorism.

I don't think so.

You want to live in peace based on justice? Then let others enjoy those blessings as well.

socratease
Posted by socratease, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 1:28:26 PM
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Despite all the in-depth analysis and inspiring tales of heroism in the face of atrocity, the question that never seems to be seriously addressed is "why?"

It's OK to continually rain such horrors down on innocents around the world but when it follows you home it's somehow different.
Posted by wobbles, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 8:18:42 PM
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rexw"war is good for economies." Only for a while.Those who bebefit from wars ie the elites in the banking,military industrial complex do not put their profits back into the system to develop economies.They want to weaken our economies so they can buy up assets for cents on the $.

The Gillard Govt wants to destroy our economy with a carbon tax so more of our country is bought for a song.
Posted by Arjay, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 9:24:46 PM
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Listen up you guys.
Brevik was just one man with a gun killing to draw his leaders to the betrayal of his country and his cultural values which should have been what they should have been doing. The Taliban are a pack of animals who once roamed the land gunning down all who they held to have betrayed the cultural and religious values they live by.and will do so again,once they seize power again...and that wont be long. In fact they are presently doing so again.

What's the difference? There isn't any.Prove me wrong, someone, if you can, or dare to.

socratease
Posted by socratease, Thursday, 8 September 2011 12:22:19 AM
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Jeoff of Perth,

None of us is innocent and all trials are victor’s trials.

Animals seem to have appeared on earth and disappeared from it because of the planet’s quirky nature.

Man, not only cannot escape his demise but is accelerating his pace towards it.

Man is an animal that, unlike all others, tries to adapt nature to his will and thus, foolishly, challenges the superior forces of the planet in which he lives.

One thousand years geologically is a very short time.

Can we imagine what will be of our Manhattan like cities in a thousand years from now?
Posted by skeptic, Thursday, 8 September 2011 1:22:31 AM
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