Why should we go after the subhuman that perpetrated this mass murder when, as you apparently believe, we deserved it? Why not just drop it?
Why should we ignore the ones who gave these murderers a safe harbor in which to terrorize the civilized world? Are you aware that your proposed response to the killers is Chamberline-esc. You sound like appeasement is the ultimate answer to the problem of terrorism. How would terrorists achieving there goals end the terrorism problem? Wouldn't they be encouraged if we pulled back as a response to their terrorist activities?
Name a country that doesn't have a problem with terrorism so we can emulate them. You can't. Even France hasn't appeased the terrorists enough to stop the bombings. That tells me appeasement doesn't work.
Has the US done a lot wrong? Yes. But the good we have done far outweighs the bad. Are you suggesting the USA should be perfect, never make poor decisions? Well that's the only way to not piss any group off. My country is damned if we do, and damned if we don't. We only do the best that we can. We will continue to do the best that we can. We will not cower in the corner. We will do our best to rid this world of all those responsible for this incomprehensible deliberate attack against unsuspecting civilians. And that means those that knowingly harbor and/or finance them, and you are either with us, or against us. You have made your choice, and I have made mine.
You're right. That was a very insensitive statement by me and I apologize to anybody that took offense to it. I was wrong to say that.
The sad thing is, I know exactly how they feel. Back in 1995 when Croatia attacked the Serbia Krajina and ethnicly cleansed 250,000 Serbs and killed thousands in a mere 3 days while being aided by the US, I could have slaughtered at least 1000 Croats by myself. All you had to do was keep the line moving for me and I could have kept the blood flowing. I wanted retribution so bad my hands were shaking.
That intense anger is difficult to sustain over a long period of time and eventually I came to my senses and was actually embarassed that I could feel such hatred.
Many of my friends were very worried about me and thought that I was completely losing my mind. At the time I was dating and madly in love with what I consider to be one of the greatest women that I have ever met. When I informed her of these feelings of hatred that I was feeling she became withdrawn from me, told me that she no longer knew who I was. The love of my life was no longer my partner.
At the time my American friends had absolutely no idea how I could feel such hatred. Now before my very eyes I'm watching what appears to me to pretty much the whole of America turn into the equivilant of blood thirsty Serb "ultra-nationalists". However you'll never hear the term ultra-nationalist used by Americans to describe what they are. For them the word is "patriots".
Although my posts will not contain the words that describe my personal desire to be the person to administer the extremely slow and painful death that I wish to see administered to the evil animals that are responsible for the carnage of Tuesday that has caused me to shed many tears and once again stir these feelings of hatred, rest assured that these feelings are still very often present. What I cannot muster is a sustained level of hate for long periods of time. I believe it may partially be because I'm just so emotionally exhausted from the near constant oscillations of emotions that have accompanied me during the last 10 years of the disolution of Yugoslavia.
Nobody understands the feelings of anger and outrage that Americans are experiencing now more than the Serbs. I bet that citizens of Belgrade from 1999 and citizens of New York from Tuesday could find much in common. I wish to God that neither city would have experienced such heartbreaking terror.
Again, I apologize for my insensitive statement to both you and anybody else I may have offended. However, I do believe that we must keep thinking. Hatred is a killer. We have prime examples of its fruits in New York and Washington.