Stardate 20010919.0942 (On Screen): Apparently there exist computer hackers who favor bin Laden; that should be interesting. One of them defaced a web server here in California. He's reported to have asked the following:
May I have the pleasure to know a single place where the U.S. government is collecting money and blood donations for Palestine victims? Is there any place where the U.S. government is working to solve the Kashmir issue? The answer is obvious, there are no such places. The U.S. government has just tasted what the Muslims are tasting for years.
This guy seems to be angry at the US not for what it has done, but rather for what it hasn't done. He wants the US to be the world's policeman, to go to places like the Middle East and Kashmir and impose solutions (favorable to his side). For him, the US simply staying out of it isn't sufficient. Kashmir is a particular example of that; so far as I know the US has no interest in the region and has applied no diplomatic capital towards a solution. Both Pakistan and India are allies, so the US can't really favor either. About the only thing the US does is to yell "KNOCK IT OFF!!" at them both when the bodies start to pile up at too alarming a rate.
He equates a direct attack by Islamic terrorists on the US to US inaction regarding a trouble spot elsewhere in the world. (Obviously the US has not attacked Kashmir.) He betrays a fundamental faith in the US: what he's saying is that he believes that if the US really wanted to, it could solve those problems, and he seems to feel we have an obligation to do so. He posts recriminations because we haven't. How strange to find a US patriot in Pakistan supporting bin Laden! (discuss)
