Warding off a Naked Churchill

9/11 Essay

It does depend on which end of the gun you are looking. The victim becomes the victimizer becomes the victim. I think it was Martin Luther King Jr. who said once that the essetial question now is between non-violence and non-existence. And it was Albert Camus, in the midst of the German occupation of France, who said that murder is never legitimate but sometimes necessary. Terrorists lack legitimate grounds for their actions but how different are their motives from that of the U.S.? The end of tyranny? Who's tyranny? Sacrifice for your people? Who's people? History may no longer be solely written by the victors but the victors are still the ones who are listened to.