It is scary stuff, especially the pictures I've looked at of 3,000 people being slaughtered in the World Trade Center and in the airplanes that were used as terrorist bombs.
We seem to forget the corpses buried in NYC, the Pentagon and the field in Pennsylvania. It's cruel, IMHO, how soon American's forgot what these evil people can do to our Country, and how 9/11 is just a passing memory.
The Hezbollah didn't have anything to do with 9/11, either. Nor did they have anything to do with Beslan. The Hezbollah is actually more than just Shia Muslims or Sunni Muslims or even just Muslims. It's also got Marronite Christians and Druse members, groups which make up at least 30% of the population. According to a poll released by the "Beirut Center for Research and Information" on 26 July during 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's fight with Israel, a rise of 29 percent on a similar poll conducted in February. More striking, however, is the level of support for Hezbollah's resistance from non-Shiite communities. Eighty percent of Christians polled supported Hezbollah along with 80 percent of Druze and 89 percent of Sunnis. So it's no longer about Islam, for the people of Lebanon. It's about being Lebanese and being attacked for being in Lebanon.
Terrorism is a tactic. It's been used by people for centuries. All terrorists are not united in their goals - only in their tactics. The Tamil Tigers are a terrorist group, too, but they didn't have anything to do with 9/11, and they don't give a toss about Islam. Just because an organization is composed of terrorists does not mean they are affiliated with Al Qaida.
If a group that uses terrorism locates itself in your country, does that make all the residents members of that group? The history of the Balkans for the past two hundred years is the story of one terrorist group after another, fighting others across borders, while terrorizing the local populations. The Congo, Liberia, Uganda - all of these countries have had major wars where internal groups of terrorists were paralyzing local citizens, who were powerless to control them, and were waging war on their neighbors. Remember when the IRA was a terrorist group, as opposed to a political party? Were all the Irish citizens terrorists because the IRA was located in their country?
Simply invoking the deaths of 9/11 in this discussion is almost worse than no response at all. It's not connected to what happened in Cana, and to simply respond "9/11" seems to be a rhetocial equivalent of a trump card, designed to shut people up. We all suffered a horrible blow on 9/11. Why should that event make us more callous towards the suffering of innocent people, instead of more sympathetic?