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"But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, sacrificing their own lives in the process - or why the United States is hated with such bitterness, not only in Arab and Muslim countries, but across the developing world - seems almost entirely absent. Perhaps it is too much to hope that, as rescue workers struggle to pull firefighters from the rubble, any but a small minority might make the connection between what has been visited upon them and what their government has visited upon large parts of the world. "

The American government likes to lull the American people to sleep with a lullaby that we are bringing freedom, democracy, and prosperity to the rest of the world, but the reality is quite something else. The American government has, in the name of vested commercial interests, backed some of history's worst dictatorships, including those of Batista and the Shah of Iran. Then, when the oppressions and impoverishments committed by these puppets against their people resulted in revolutions, the American people, befuddled, scratched their heads and wondered why anyone in Cuba or Iran could possibly prefer Castro or Ayatolla Khomeini over leaders who were bringing them the benefits of "truth, justice, and the American way".

I've visited a great deal of the world. Some people love us. More do not. It's unrealistic to expect any people to love a nation that imposes, often with force of arms, its values and its gods upon others. You can call it "peacekeeping" all you want; it's still an invasion to those who stop the bullets.

The fact is that we still do not really know who the villian is in New York and DC. We only know that the government and media which has lied to us so many times before is pointing the two minute hate at Osama Bin Laden, a former (if there is such a thing) contract agent for the CIA and a heck of a convenient patsy if a Presidential dynasty that owns a petroleum company wants an excuse to go in and invade a lot of oil wells.

It's clear that the goal of these attacks was to start a war, a war that is most assuredly AGAINST the interests of the Arabs and for the interests of other parties, especially those interested in controlling more of the region's oil.

And while no attack could ever destroy America, it is clear that these attacks are intended to trick Americans into destroying what American stands for. Already we are seeing calls for a suspension of basic rights and due process, indeed the very qualities of American life we point to as our gift to the rest of the world (and justification for our military incursions into other people's lands).

If we throw away the Bill of Rights because racial profiling is "common sense", then we throw away all that America stands for. When we do that, those who attacked New York and DC will have succeeded, even if we hunt them down and kill them.

Jeez, Michael, what took you so long to show up? Having trouble getting your tin-foil conspiracy hat to fit this morning? Or were you just having trouble deciding which anti-American thread you wanted to comment on first?

You are so right about "...the Two Minute Hate"

Unfortunately, many here seem oblivious to your meaning. Our "educational" system, implemented by the socialist Dewey and his fellow travelers, seems to have succeeded beyond their wildest imaginings.

I fear that we have just witnessed our "Reichstag Fire".

The J.P. Morgan Chase Watch

If we throw away the Bill of Rights because racial profiling is "common sense", then we throw away all that America stands for. When we do that, those who attacked New York and DC will have succeeded, even if we hunt them down and kill them. 158 Posted on 09/13/2001 08:40:15 PDT by Michael Rivero

Just the kind of DRIVEL I expected to see from whatever you are.