WOT Re: a prayer

["Jon" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com>]

> 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.