dballer said:
Stronchick. I have thought long and hard about your 9/11 comment. I am not being mean right now.. I want to understand how in the world someone could say such a thing. You did say we got what we deserved... we got 6000 of our people.. left and right wing... black and white... asian and hispanic... is was US who died. Making a comment like that is sooo out of this world.. I do not think coming at you with anger is just. I am very concerned that maybe more people think like this. To me it is a scary thought. I am sorry that you hate this country enough to say somthing like that. It sounds to me that you and I would never get along... but those people who died in that attack were an outside party... Were you sooo upset that you just said that? Alot of the time I say things that I do not really mean... but nothing like that.
If you choose to come back at me with a hate filled post.. I will understand.. but please listen... that comment has evoked true concern... how could one American feel that way?
Believe it or not, I've been thinking long and hard too, especially on reading the many posts here. Before knowing what anyone else thought, my first reaction is how can we want to kill people who had nothing to do with the act in the first place? So many must die, and for what?
If it is for democracy and freedom, let it be FOR REAL, not for oil, or whatever. Save those people for a higher ideal, don't kill them just to relieve blind rage.
I keep thinking of those pictures from years ago, in Time and Life magazine...little kids running, burning. their skin falling off in shreds because of nuclear bombs and chemical weapons. I cry as I write this...
I can't bear the thought of it any more. We are so advanced. why are we not using our political weight instead of weaponry?
I just don't understand. Sanctions and mass deaths from starvation are not working...why would bombs?
So I go to the next thought...perhaps we need something they have so badly that it is worth human lives. But what could be worth human lives? To me, the only things worth sacrificing human lives for are higher ideals, like human rights, equality, freedom, etc.
This is how I know that I am nobody. What I think is important, what I have valued all my life, looks to be running down the toilet.
That we are A FREE, DEMOCRATIC, HONORABLE SOCIETY...is this no longer true? Can it be that we have been visiting other countries and raping them all the while I thought we were justified?
I am outraged. I am angry. I am sad. I am hurt. All that I believed is shit.
I want to believe in Bush...but I distrust him. That more Americans will die because our oil barons won't allow the US to migrate to alternative forms of energy is a disgrace....if that is what is going on.
We don't know though, do we? So I'm left here to piss and moan about it on a forum.
Thanks for listening.