People,
Please let's try to cool the heated social/political/moral debates. All
of us.
[Insert your deity here] knows what a horrible day yesterday was, and
just how deeply we've all been affected by it. But this is not the
place to argue meanings, responsibilities, or moral authority.
Let's try to find some solace in the music we all love, and let that
feeling extend to our interactions with each other.
Sincerely,
John
On Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at 02:21 PM, Steve Catanzaro wrote:
> 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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