Posted on 09/18/2001 1:15:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
and war, and disease, and famine, and crime, and poverty...
Good luck.
I agree attacking ANYONE because of their nationality or religion is not only wrong, but the last thing we need now. This warning is appropraite and necessary.
But I keep hearing that line you wrote repeated, and my mind keeps asking, "what IS the ballpark percentage?" Do we know? Is it really a minority of the Muslim nations?
The guilty. Those are the perpetrators of the crime, those that sheltered them and those that financed them. Never feel bad about hating evil. Evil should be hated.
But ethnic Pakistanis running grocery stores in Dallas or Hindus running gas stations in Arizona have no guilt for this atrocity. Hating them just wastes energy, and merely turns you into evil's ally.
That also goes for the Afghan herdsman that wants to be left alone, the Iraqi shop owner who is merely tending his wares or the Sudanese businessman whose only purpose is to bring inexpensive medicines to his people.
That is why Bush is not planning retribution or revenge. To him it is not about either of those -- it is about roach removal. If, busy as he is he can differentiate between the guilty and the innocent, then certainly we can do so, also.
And it, of course, goes without saying that attacking an innocent muslim for the crimes of another muslim is tragically wrong as well.
Whereas I was deeply angered at last week's attack, he was truly traumatized...I spoke to him over the phone, and he was basically in shock. He kept repeating, almost sobbing about how he had brought his wife and newborn to the states seeking safety and stability, and the opportunity to make an honest living. (He has a law degree from an American University, and could be very wealthy via graft in his homeland). In a microcosmic way, the negative reaction of Americans to this mideasterner is adversely impacting the economy, as I've had to use extreme discretion in the assignments I've given him in the last seven days, for his safety. He's a truly talented employee, however, I have to limit my utilization of his capabilities due to the current situation. As a result, he's not generating the type of wealth he's capable of for the American economy...
I support Bush's plan from what I've heard so far. What is your suggestion for takeing care of business?
Exactly how do you tell the difference? After all until one week ago, the hijackers by all reports were nice friendly people, good students. At least one seemed to be a caring family man. Innocent seeming pilots. There was no reason to suspect that they were planning to kill Bush, our Congress, destroy our economy, our military and we know it's obvious they did NOT then intend to leave us alone to rebuild in peace. They planned a takeover. I suspect there isn't much outrage expressed in the immigrant Arab communities right now because they would have preferred the US being put under Islamic rule.
Oh c'mon. You sound like the people who say the Christians want a theocracy.
We already did but I think people even on FR are quickly forgetting the 6000+ dead from just a week ago. Back to Ophrah and all their soaps. We gave them a nice funeral so now we can forget about them.
It is really simple. Nineteen of them flew airplanes into the ground. Anyone who helped them was an accessory. Backtrack. Find out where they lived, who they trained with, where they got their money. Those folks are also guilty.
Find out who sold airlines and insurance companies short on Monday. If they have connections with Mideast terror organizations, you can assume they had inside knowledge, especially if those were the only things they plunged big on.
Find out where the folks that blew Khobar towers, and WTC 93 trained, and who bankrolled them. This is a war on terrorism, and terrorists -- so they are guilty, too.
Go to the nations where the training camps are located. Give them an option -- dismantle the camps and turn over the personnel in them (they are guilty, too), or go to war against the United States. If the governments refuse to cooperate, well -- they have identified themselves as guilty of being accessories, too. Take them apart, then rebuild the government with leaders that will stop terrorism.
Don't make it more complex than it needs to be. Roaches leave tracks. Follow the tracks and clean up behind them.
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