Playing Bin Laden's game
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1213874,00.html
The west is losing the war on terror on a global scale. Only if
Britain takes an independent line can we protect our security
Michael Meacher
Tuesday May 11, 2004
The Guardian
Despite the revelations of torture, the US-British policy is
unchanged: see this historic struggle through to its conclusion for
the sake of democracy and civilisation; apply overwhelming force
against terrorists and extremists; and show unremitting resolve to
root out resistance wherever it is found. Whether it is Americans in
Iraq, Israelis in Palestine or the west against al-Qaida, the approach
is the same: a policy proclaimed in the name of freedom, tolerance and
a decent world order that, ironically, could hardly be better
calculated to produce the opposite.
Michael Meacher
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