Flutterby™! : One more on the WTC/Pentagon incident

Dori linked to What Happens Next? Six options beyond war and peace, that lays out various attitudes about responses in a very clear way. Seth Gordon passed along his Goldstein, bin Laden, and Orwell, in which he talks about the use of redirection in discussion of atrocities and conflict. And Jason Kottke linked to a Suck article about the USS Cole bombing which talks about motivations that make people die for a cause, and has added Marshall's Men Against Fire to my reading list. (because it seems to tie in to my observations about trusting peer judgements). The article concludes:

If you're looking for the clear act of cowardice around the bombing of the Cole, then, look to the effort to describe it to the countrymen of the murdered sailors. To suggest that an organized attack, brought off skillfully by members of what must be an extraordinarily cohesive organization, represents nothing more than some simpering spasm of pathetic hatred is to carefully miss the very large, very unpleasant point: People who destroy human life in this precise manner are not alone, and not disorganized, and very much not finished.