New York's Destruction is NOT a Tragedy.....

Self | 9-12-01 | Loopy

[Loopy]

Fellow Freepers:

I would like to bring your attention to something that is relatively (even in the big picture presented) disturbing at least to me. Specifically, I have heard numerous mentions of the Act of War perpetrated upon us, referred to by SOME of our leaders as a "Tragedy." Ladies and Gentlemen, this is and was NOT a "TRAGEDY"; the deliberate murder of tens of thousands is an unspeakable OUTRAGE!!!!!.

We must not allow our leaders to shirk sure and serious retribution by downplaying the significance of this by using weasel words. Shakespeare wrote Tragedies. Sorry stories of preordained fruitlessness. Of preordained ends. But truly also, singular events.

Demand that your politicians call this what it is, and not downplay it by using the word tragedy. Politically Correct speach has no place at a time like this. Use the right word to describe this. No spin. THIS WAS AN OUTRAGE!!!!

[Loopy]

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[wjeanw]

I disagree. In the ancient Greek tradition, a tragedy was a play that started with the hero at the height of his power and who through the next acts was brought to destruction by his own pride and character weaknesses. I think this is an apt description of the present state of our Western Civilization. The West is blind to the true nature of the strife with the Muslim world because they themselves are basically at war with the same target: namely the faith coming from Jesus Christ.

[Faraday]

The tragedy is these terrorists' heads are still attached to their heartless bodies. May the Mossad cell phone business grow and grow.

[Gladwin]

This isn't a tragedy; it is a call to action. Congress should declare war on Afghanistan, and any other countries that harbor terrorists. The military should track down and kill the terrorists, their families, and their friends. If any less is done, we will only be waiting for the next massacre. The next time it might be a nuclear weapon, and one million will be dead rather than thousands.

[longleaf]

Bingo! That's why I keep saying that yesterday was extremely bad news for observant religious types all over the world. We will now all be lumped into the same category by the "secular materialists" who are in charge of the New World Order.

I would say any typical church member in any evangelical body of believers throughout the South is now a legitimate target for persecution in the minds of those running our government.

We will now see a great "falling away" as Christians decide en masse that their true religion is American globalistic materialism, with a little prompting from our government, of course, that this is the only "correct" way of thinking that can be allowed in order to prevent future acts such as we saw yesterday.