Not slinging mud here Mike, but I've never been too
terribly impressed with some of your leaders either.
As I recall, London took the brunt of a lot of
destruction in WWII, maybe worse than NYC yesterday.
The citizens of Dresden got a piece of the 'pay-back'
on that one.
So please stop throwing stones, we all live in glass
houses, eh?
Carter Shore
--- Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com> wrote:
> In article <200109111545.AA542834892@141.com>, Laura
> Gharazeddine
> <Laura.G@141.com> writes
>
> >You know, people who commit such acts do them
> because they feel
> >horribly disenfranchised and completely between a
> rock and a hard
> >place. Find the exact people responsible for this
> act on the WTC,
> >and work to make the situations better for the
> rest-so that they
> >won't feel the need to commit such acts in the
> future. As long as
> >people feel in that situation, there'll always be
> twice as many
> >volunteers to fill the shoes of suicide bombers and
> terrorists.
>
> You are so right. I have never been terribly
> impressed with your
> current President (I believe few outside the US
> are), and I am terrified
> that he will prefer "glorious vengeance" to seeking
> a solution. If, as
> he and other world leaders are saying, these
> despicable acts were
> attacks on Freedom and Democracy, then let us not
> lose sight of the fact
> that Justice, not Vengeance, is at the root of both.
> Let us hope that
> your government catches the evil men who plotted
> these attacks, puts
> them on trial, and punishes those found guilty
> appropriately. Let us
> hope that your government does not, as I have seen
> suggested elsewhere,
> bomb Palestine or Afghanistan to rubble. That
> would not be justice.
> That would not be democracy. That would not be
> worthy of a great
> nation.
>
> It has long been considered by analysts that the aim
> of those who commit
> terrorism in the United States is to provoke a
> despotic response from
> the American government. To destroy all those
> things for which America
> is a symbol - Freedom, Justice, Democracy, Liberty.
> If your government
> reacts to these atrocities with anything other than
> calm dispassion, and
> even-handed justice, then the terrorists will have
> achieved far more
> than terror; they will have destroyed everything
> America stands for.
>
> Let us hope that all the governments of the world
> can work together to
> change forever the circumstances that lead people to
> believe that
> terrorism is the only way their grievances will be
> listened to.
>
> My thoughts and prayers are with all those who fell
> victim to these
> horrific attacks. Let justice be done to their
> murderers, and let no
> more innocent lives be taken in a search for
> vengeance.
>
> ATB
> --
> Mike
> Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in
> the Crimea"
>
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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