I have just read your answer to Lori on digest No 40 and I think you have encapsulated the WHY this is all happening better than any other of the articles I have engaged with on the list. It is succinct, stays away from any form of jingoist fervour and just sticks to the available facts and articles you have obviously read, marked and inwardly digested....
This is a nasty twisty time of Spin and machination, with own agendas on all sides and no-one seems to see that this is not actually about 11th September at all...... it has been coming for years. Maybe the superpowers need to extend their research into alternative ways to fuel their power plants and vehicles rather than base it all on oil... I loved the Bond analagy...... excellent... My own private cinematic view of it can be gleaned from any movie where the baddies embrace (think of any of the godfather type films) and, as the camera pans round the embracing baddies each one is looking to his henchmen and winking....... Thank you for your clarity........ but I remain opposed to any war and stick by my feelings that aid, not bombs should have gone to Afghanistan. Lucy
