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Jon, thanks for so eloquently saying what I'm too weary (at 38) of the unconsious patterns of the world to have said. Sincerely, Glenn Javaheri on 9/11/01 8:08 PM, Jon at ssrndpty@hotmail.com wrote: > >> Yea, yea, yea.... So far all I have heard from you "non-American's" is >> "America should be cool, quiet, and lay on our proverbial backs", while >> these fiends get away with MURDER. Now I am not advocating total nuclear >> annihilation of "suspect" terrorist countries, unlike the CEO of >CoffeeCup >> Software, and I quote : > > It takes quite a bit to motivate someone to fly themselves into the side >of > a building. I would assume that it probably take something along the >anger > that you are expressing, to several orders of magnitude. Perhaps, more > personally felt, than something they watched on a TV screen. How did it >make > you feel to be the recipient of their reaction? Have you learnt your >lesson? > It doesn't sound like it. What makes you think that someone else, in a > country with much more legitimate reasons to be agreived would not >respond > the same way? What if they're right wing conservatives, to the extreme? >Do > you think they would be more or less understanding? Do they think they >will > 'take it on their back'? Wait a moment, someone just did - it's on the > news... > > There are reasons why people in other countries feel differently about > America's actions. The rest of the world, does not get their news spoon >fed > to them from the whitehouse, sandwhiched between the titilating >discussions > of politician's sex lives and the latest Jerry Springer pablum that >passes > for news on CNN. They know about the children dieing in Iraq due to > sanctions, and a myriad of other rather gruesome the US government has > engineered, that I won't bother to get into on a Looper's list. > > If you want more than the mindless revenge that passes for justice these > days, you have to find out what made these people so agrieved they >decided > to kill themselves, otherwise they'll just continue; there are plenty >more > where they came from. > > I'm pretty certain that all we will see now is more violence and more > atrocities, from both sides. Words cannot express the grief of knowing >what > is to come.