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...President Bush has said, bin Laden is only one man, and the only real way to stop terrorism is to try to round up the terrorists who live throughout the world. To do this, a powerful, international court of law with authority to arrest, extradite and punish offenders must be created. Such a court would require international support from a vast array of countries—the possibility of which decreases with each bomb that is dropped and Afghani civilian who dies. Already the loose alliance of countries “supporting” the U.S. bombing is weakening...
...need not create elaborate conspiracy theories to claim that the current war is an attack not only against bin laden and the Taliban, but all of Afghanistan, simply look at Bush’s message to Afghanistan: “If you cough [bin Laden] up and his people today, then we’ll reconsider what we are doing to your country.” So, if bin Laden and his henchmen are handed over to the US, Bush will “reconsider” bombing a country which is already on the verge of total collapse because...
Like it or not, bin Laden and the Taliban are in power largely as the result of support of the U.S. during Afghanistan’s war with the Soviet Union (back when their militarism was “freedom fighting” and not its more current and accurate name “terrorism”). The U.S. funded them, built the very camps that bin Laden now uses to train terrorists and supplied them with weapons all in the name of anti-Communism. Now the U.S. is supporting the Northern Alliance, another group of hardened...
...hippies misses the valid arguments for peace: that the US must seek to shore up international support to help arrest and prosecute current terrorists. That in the attempt to bring these terrorists to justice we must avoid the foreign policy mistakes that helped give rise to violent extremists like bin Laden. And finally, that the country must try avoid the deaths of innocent civilians, who will be mourned by friends and family as bitterly as those who died on Sept...
What exactly does Cheever mean when he says "[bin Laden's] motivations are ... a desperate attempt to unite the Arab world against encroachment by America and the West"? Of what sort of encroachment is Cheever thinking? These justifications for bin Laden's actions only serve to scapegoat Israel...