Posted by AuntieMel on January 18, 2005, at 10:59:14
In reply to Re: What would you have to say to someone » AuntieMel, posted by alexandra_k on January 17, 2005, at 19:45:51
I'm assuming that when you use the word "you" that you aren't talking about me personally. I agree with much of what you are saying.
I was firmly behind going to Afghanastan after 911, and I still think it was (and is) rightful self defense.
I was not for invading Iraq. Logic, from the knowledge available at the time, told me that they did have WMD, but I didn't think they were going to use them anytime in the foreseeable future. And - hey - the guy *was* donkey dung - murdering more of his own civilians than the war has so far. It just wasn't an immediate threat.
I also didn't think, rightly it turns out, that we had the manpower and supplies available to do the job. And I thought it would take our attention away from the real dangers in the world. When it was announced that we would be pulling folks from Germany, Japan and Korea I started getting really worried about manpower shortages.
BUT - 911 wasn't *just* "a suicide bomber" Suicide bomber implies one person with a backpack full of explosives taking out a bus or a market or a restaraunt. This was 20 men, hijacking 4 planes, killing not just the passengers but aiming at huge numbers of INNOCENT civilians, killing thousands, wounding thousands more and seriously affecting millions. My daughter has PTSD because of it and it was the beginning of my slide into a dark deep depression that I am just now beginning to come out of.
And why? What did those people do? Those that were crushed by debris? Those that burned to death? Those that jumped out of windows eighty stories high? Those on the planes who went through a terror I can't even begin to imagine?
The answer? They committed the great sin of being Americans. The "Great Satan."
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