Fisk: A terrible thought occurs to me - that there will be another 9/11

[Karmadillo]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1214522.ece

The room shook. Not since the 1983 earthquake has my apartment rocked from side to side. That was the force of the Israeli explosions in the southern suburbs of Beirut - three miles from my home - and the air pressure changed in the house yesterday morning and outside in the street the palm trees moved.

Is it to be like this every day? How many civilians can you make homeless before you start a revolution? And what is next? Are the Israelis to bomb the centre of Beirut? The Corniche? Is this why all the foreign warships came and took their citizens away, to make Beirut safe to destroy?

Yesterday, needless to say, was another day of massacres, great and small. The largest appeared to be 40 farm workers in northern Lebanon, some of them Kurds - a people who do not even have a country. An Israeli missile was reported to have exploded among them as they loaded vegetables on to a refrigerated truck near Al-Qaa, a small village east of Hermel in the far north. The wounded were taken to hospital in Syria because the roads of Lebanon have now all been cratered by Israeli bomb-bursts. Later we learnt that an air strike on a house in the village of Taibeh in the south had killed seven civilians and wounded 10 seeking shelter from attack.

In Israel two civilians were killed by Hizbollah missiles but, as usual, Lebanon bore the brunt of the day's attacks which centred - incredibly - on the Christian heartland that has traditionally shown great sympathy towards Israel. It was the Christian Maronite community whose Phalangist militiamen were Israel's closest allies in its 1982 invasion of Lebanon yet Israel's air force yesterday attacked three highway bridges north of Beirut and - again as usual - it was the little people who died.

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[madrchsod]

1. yes we will reap the whirlwind

george bush has given the future the darkness of his souless being.

"there is no hope
no reasoning
this rainy day in june"

ray davies "rainy day in june"

[IndianaGreen]

2. K&R because the truth must be told above the lies of the megaphones

We are the ones that are put in peril by the insane policies of our respective governments.

[yurbud]

3. This time the reaction will be more like Madrid than 9/11

If the Bushies go to that well again they'll poison it for themselves.

[readmoreoften]

4. Yeah, I imagine Bush & Co are too busy to pull off another full scale

9-11 ;)

The terrorists will probably hit the Castro too, just like the Anthrax only hit liberal reporters and Dems.

[yurbud]

7. castro should be careful about who fixes his food, medicine, and water

if he doesn't want to end up like Arafat.

[SweetLeftFoot]

5. Fisk

While I respect Robert immensely, you don't have to be a frickin' genius to realise that Afghanistan + Iraq + Lebanon since the original 9/11 might just get some people thinking and planning ...

[sasha031]

6. I think * would be rather delighted with another 9/11

we would be all under marshall law and the commander and thief would claim even more power than he already has.

yes I believe such thoughts relay delights the psychopath and his cabal.

[meldroc]

8. That's exactly what scares me...

Not just having another 9/11, which would be bad enough, but King George's reaction to a second 9/11. Martial law, "delays" of elections, maybe more extreme things, like sending Muslims, dissidents to detention camps, imposition of totalitarian rule.

And our Dear Leader is just egging them on.