Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:51:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <3BA0D5EB.6C392A5@mindspring.com> References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010913102807.A369@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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Paul Robinson wrote: > I think his point is that perhaps America should sit down and > think about her actions, and WHY this happened. These guys had > a reason for doing what they did, and I'm suprised nobody, > anywhere, seems to want to discuss what that might have been. > It just seems easier to call them cowards and paste over the > issue. I think the general consensus of the American public is that we don't really give a rats ass about their _excuse_, since their actions were militarily unjustifiable, having been carried out against predominantly civilian targets. I also think that "America" is not some singular entity that can be attacked or "punished" for perceived transgressions by external agencies who have so little support for their views that they have been unable to form or take over a government sufficiently for them to be able to officially declare war and be taken seriously, rather than resorting to terrorist attacks. I expect that you will justify this somehow, though, just like the people who got upset over the unfortunate events in China, where one tenth of one percent of the Chinese population decided their government needed changing, and didn't realize that the proportional equivalent for the U.S. was the 250,000 person population of Brigham City, Utah wanting to replace the entire U.S. Government. These people are a minority, and while it may piss them off to not be able to dictate policy to the larger society, that's no justification for terrorist acts. I also think that if it was their intent for us to "think about their cause of action", they've done a piss-poor job of it, starting with them not claiming credit or voicing their agenda which they expected to achieve by the act. Finally, I think that a lot of people believe that the "reason" for the attack was "our failure in not preemptively reducing them to their constituent atoms before they could act". It will be a long time before that opinion will change (if ever). A lot of people are (rightly) pissed off over the events. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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