9/11 Attacks on America | Evil Is Too Simplistic an Explanation for the Terrorist Attacks
Joel Bleifuss is editor of In These Times, a newsmagazine that promotes political and economic democracy.
Summary: While the killing of thousands of innocents understandably gives rise to feelings of anger and hate, defining the subsequent struggle as a “monumental struggle of good versus evil,” as President George W. Bush has done, oversimplifies the tragedy and brings Americans down to the level of the terrorists. Too often in history, mass atrocities have been committed against people and groups demonized as the evil enemy. Americans should resist...
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