?Pulp Fiction?
by Umm al-Asafir
13 December 2001
Pulp Fiction: anyone can be depicted to say/do anything at all.
It matters less if the Osama bin Laden tape is authentic, than it matters what the effects of broadcasting to the world are:1) The Hawks are more Hawkish; one might say spitting nails.
2) Each side is calling the other infidels and evil.
3) Real or not, what we got was a misspeak of what we did get:
"Bin Laden says on the tape that while the hijackers knew they were on a "martyrdom operation," some did not know anything about the plot until just before they boarded the planes."
The martyrs knew they were martyrs; they didn't know the details.
But the most damning that matters is the the depiction of this unholy conflict as solely a religious war.
Why do we forget in the authentic tapes Palestine was mentioned as part of the justification?
World Trade Center/Pentagon?
something like the Military/Industrial Complex
Dwight David Eisenhower warned us about?Terrorism is evil.
The cause of terrorism is evil.
"Inequity is a form of violence"