Behind the jargon about failed states and humanitarian interventions lie thousands of dead..good article by (conservative British journalist) John Pilger
by John Pilger in The New Statesman 24/11/01
Polite society’s bombers may not have to wait long for round two. The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, warned last week that America could take action against ’40 to 50 countries’. Somalia, allegedly a ‘haven’ for al-Qaeda, joins Iraq at the top of a list of potential targets. Cheered by having replaced Afghanistan’s bad terrorists with America’s good terrorists, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has asked the Pentagon to ‘think the unthinkable’, having rejected its ‘post-Afghanistan options’ as ‘not radical enough’.
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