Posted by Declan on November 23, 2005, at 17:18:46
In reply to Re: The Usual Thing » AuntieMel, posted by alexandra_k on November 23, 2005, at 15:04:35
Talking about 'incomprehensible' terrorists. If you know nothing about them, see no point in knowing anything about them, see them as simply evil, well it's not surprising that they should remain incomprehensible.
When the standard of our argument is that to understand something is to justify it, what can you do?
I would guess that very few of us know anything about the history of that part of the world. For example apparently 800 years ago or something one of the popes made a deal with Attilla the Hun or Genghiz Khan or whoever, (what do I know? I only heard about it on Late night Live), to the effect that if he took Bagdhad it was OK as long as the Christians there were spared. Apparently this is something Iraqis know and care about. They're not in Murdochland yet.
Declan
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