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Sometimes There Is No Other Side
Dear Editor,
A letter published in the September 19th issue from a conflict resolution manager urged understanding and copious foreign aid as a more effective response to the World Trade Center atrocity than the use of force.
Some years ago, a relative of mine showed her class at Drexel University a French film, "Night and Fog". It took viewers through a deserted concentration camp, lingering on the piles of shoes, the mounds of human hair. Afterward she asked the class to comment. One student raised his hand and respectfully stated, "I’d like to hear the other side."
Years before that, an English Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, came back from Munich promising that diplomatic negotiation rather than force had produced "peace in our time".
I honor Ms. Coleman for her humanity and compassion, but the thousands dead in New York, those murdered on the Cole and in the embassy bombings are trying to tell us that sometimes there is no other side.
Sincerely,
Frances Hodes
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