"Zap, look at your anger for these bombings in London which otherwise don’t affect your day to day life. You will still go to work today come home talk to your kids and wife and eat a nice dinner.
I would bet this is a similar scenario for 9/11 understandably anger producing, but not affecting your day to day life significantly.
Now put yourself in the shoes of an Iraqi or Afghani who would otherwise not give two shits about America how they feel after a 500 pound bomb drops on the block or village they live in wiping out every single member of their family children, wife, mother, father!
Imagine if you were a Palestinian who at one time in his life was rounded up by Israeli intelligence and tortured or had family killed.
Do you think for poor impoverished people that don’t have tanks, fighter jets, warships, or 1000 pounds bombs, they may think we are the terrorists when are power is brought to bear on them sometimes unjustly?
I feel the terrorists are our enemy, but I also think it’s the height of arrogance and ignorance to always act so pure and virginal when were attacked as if we have never through our policies and actions hurt other peoples in this world and are partly responsible for the hatred and violence directed at us.
I also think America has been a very positive force and helped many people the world over, but to take the line that some of the right wing extremist nutjobs do is IMO irrational, immature, and does nothing to help or stop the problem… it just creates more. "
Very good post.
I feel for the families of those injured or killed. I am glad my relatives were fine although one was very lucky. Getting into another argument about Islam and the war on terror so soon after this has happened.
I also notice someone keeps talking about ‘our’ brethren. People living in New York and London. Yes it hurts more because it strikes close to home for me and some Americans may have relatives there, but I guarantee if it was Paris you would not be saying those same things. We are all people, all human beings. Any atrocity such as this is horrific, no matter who did it to who. Its time the world moved on from having such narrow borders and small groups of allies hating everyone else. We are citizens of the world, we are all human beings, we must do our best at all times to remember that when you start hating a whole religion. So hypocritical to talk about the hate of Islam when you clearly hate it so much in turn yourself.
Terrorism isn’t necassrily the answer but I do not think you can lump everything into that same basket of ‘terrorism’. At times it is necessary. When you talk about the IRA, whilst you and I disagree with the continuation of the military organization, you surely understand the need for it at one point in time? If there was no IRA then there would never have been a Republic of Ireland. 6 counties remain under british control, obviously some agree with this, some don’t, but at the current point in time there is no solution. This is why terrorist organizations exist, to protect there way of life and their country. Americans need to remember this when they invade another country, you are creating as many terrorists as you stop, you cannot force your way of life on another nation.
