Reply #43: Why was retaliation necessary? [View All]

[Darranar]

What was done to the country of Afghanistan was not justice, it was a bloody and vicious sort of revenge, the slaughter of innocent men, women, and children in some cold-hearted attempt on the part of the elites to illustrate they were doing something for "national security." There was never a need to somehow "make up" for the innocents killed on 9/11/01 by killing more innocents; doing that is unproductive and wholly immoral. The Empire responded to a clear indication of the "success" of its policies with the eager continuation of such policies.

What would be the response if Nicaragua proclaimed that retaliation for the terrorist war waged by the Reagan Administration against its people was "completely necessary," and as a result slaughtered thousands of American civilians?

In fact Bin Laden did something pretty similar, he said that what he did was justified because of the huge number of Iraqi children starved to death by the sanctions. He was wrong, because one atrocity does not justify another. The war against Afghanistan was wrong for the same reason.