It's Very Easy To Start A War

We Live In A Society In The West, Where, When Men Do Violent Things, They Do Them Under Orders. They Are Soldiers Carrying Out Orders Or Mafia Men Carrying Out Killings For Bosses. But The Way Things Happen In The Middle East Is Not The Same As In The West. Look, International Capital Has Been Globalized, So Osama Bin Laden Is Globalized. It's Not Surprising To Find Followers Of Bin Laden In All These Countries.

Some Of The Guys In The Northern Alliance Are War Criminals. One Of The Northern Alliance Commanders Ran A Slave Girl Network In Kabul In 1994. Remember That There Was A Period When Every Woman On The Streets Was At Risk Of Being Raped. This Was The Northern Alliance Period Of Glory.

Whatever The Political Injustices Are That Created An Environment That Brought This About, It Was Not Americans Who Flew Those Planes Into Those Buildings. And We Should Remember That. The Crimes Against Humanity Were Perpetrated By People Who Were Arab Muslims.

I Was Very Struck By The Fact That Colin Powell Said He Would Produce Evidence And Then Never Produced It. Then Tony Blair Produced A Document Of Seventy Paragraphs, But Only The Last Nine Referred To The World Trade Center, And They Were Not Convincing. So We Have A Little Problem Here: If They're Guilty, Where Is The Evidence? And If We Can't Hear The Evidence, Why Are We Going To War?

I Don't Know What Happens If They Get Bin Laden. I'm Much More Interested In What Happens If They Don't Get Bin Laden.