Monday, June 30, 2003
This article is about the fuss over the memorial that will be built to remember the victims of the 11th September attack on the WTC. With the greatest of respect to the relatives of the victims, I think the most positive thing to be no memorial, that everyone involved instead concetrates on the future. Any monument will be forever linked to the death of many many more foreigners as part of the crusade these events started. Already we have had the mere memory of these people co-opted by Bush and Blair to justify invading Afghanistan and Iraq, a monument at Ground Zero will allow Bush or those who follow him a cheap emotional shorthand to justify whatever barbarism they want to engage in. A new carpark may be inelegant but will deprive them of a cheap trick.
