IP: Fwd: Bush is walking into a trap

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:14:04 -0400
> From: "Dorothy E. Denning" <denning () cs georgetown edu>
>
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=94254
>
> 17 September 2001 10:11 GMT+1
>
> Robert Fisk: Bush is walking into a trap
>
> 16 September 2001, The Independent
>
> Retaliation is a trap. In a world that was supposed to have learnt that 
> the rule
> of law comes above revenge, President Bush appears to be heading for the very
> disaster that Osama bin Laden has laid down for him. Let us have no doubts 
> about
> what happened in New York and Washington last week. It was a crime against
> humanity. We cannot understand America’s need to retaliate unless we 
> accept this
> bleak, awesome fact. But this crime was perpetrated ­ it becomes ever 
> clearer ­
> to provoke the United States into just the blind, arrogant punch that the US
> military is preparing.
>
> <snip>
>
> --
> Prof. Dorothy E. Denning
> Georgetown University
> http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning



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