You mean, unjust things like supporting Israel's right to exist? Checking
Sadaam Hussein's lust for unfettered power and control over the Arab world,
including probably those very territories which harbor terrorists? Precisely
what "unjust thing" did America do to the people / states / despots /
terrorist / dictators/ cowards / racist / bigot thugs who committed /
sponsored these acts?
To those calling for compromise; compromise with who, and on what points?
Compromise with those who advocate the complete destruction of the state of
Israel? How, exactly, are we to do that, without complicity in both
anti-Semitism and genocide?
So, we trained underground Afghanis to defend themselves against the
invading occupying Russian army. Most Americans at the time thought that was
a good idea. They have now turned this knowlege against us. Might as well
blame Embry-Riddle university for teaching men to fly, or Leonard da Vinci,
for dreaming that one day they might be able to.
I realize that moral equivalence may be the hip, quasi intellectual
philosophy of the day, but I suggest its time to *wake up* and recognize
that evil exists in the world, and its manifestation has hardly been more
palpable since the 3rd Reich...
I also submit that "many Americans do not realize" just how many people
around the world, even in the very same countries where people were jumping
for joy at the thought of American civilians jumping out of 100 story
buildings, would give anything for the chance to be American citizens.
America may be the most hated place on earth, but it is also the most loved.
That, too, is simply a bit of perspective.
The point, as I took it, was that for many Americans, it is
> important to realize that we helped train and create the power-structure
for
> these "monsters," and left unsaid, but I think implied, is that while
> yesterday's attacks are some of the most evil, awful things we've ever
seen, the
> US *has* done many unjust things that have inspired hatred of us in the
rest of
> the world. Many Americans do not realize that. It's simply a bit of
> perspective.
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