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| Tightly Wound |
by Babobandit |
2001-09-13 14:22:41 |
It's been two days, and I still feel like a tightly wound sprimg. I get these times when it feels like a gorilla is sitting on my chest. I want vengenace, and it infuriates me to see people who are saying we shouldn't retaliate for this inhuman act of mass murder, that we should seek a peaceful solution to this conflict.
Osama bin-Laden and the vermin he trains and finances laugh at the word "peace". They do not deserve forgiveness, because they don't want it. Did you see the videos of Palestinians waving their flags and dancing in the streets as the towers fell, as thousands of innocent people of many nations were burning, falling dozens of stories to their deaths, being crushed by thousands of tons of concrete and steel? Do you think you would have seen that kind of reaction if it was a skyscraper in Tokyo instead of New York?
I've heard people say that this was like Pearl Harbor. This was nothing like Pearl Harbor. At Pearl Harbor, we had the military forces of one nation attack the military forces of another. Tuesday morning, a bunch of thugs, harbored and sheltered by another nation, not only killed thousands of innocent civilians, they used hundreds of OTHER innocent civilians as the instruments of those deaths! And people still refer to these animals as human beings? Is there any lower level to which it is possible to sink? Words fail to convey the sheer cruelty that these vermin committed!
This sort of psychotic behavior must not be allowed to continue. The time for negotiation is over. We've tried for years to negotiate, but it failed. War was declared on the United States on Tuesday. If we sit and take it, they will do it again, and again, and again, until we are all dead. And when we are dead, they will pick another nation to blame for their lot in life, and start killing them. These terrorists will stop at nothing else. Violence and death are all they want, and all they understand. So we must go after them with every resource we have available to us.
I want the perpetrators of this act dead. All of them. Those that planned, it, financied it, and those who harbored them and gave them a place to prepare for it. If that happens to be Osama bin-Laden, people he trained, and the Taliban government of Afghanistan, so be it. The response to the attack on the WTC and Pentagon should be swift, hard, and frightening. It should be so staggeringly violent that no nation on Earth would dare to harbor a terrorist within its borders again, fearing the wrath of our angered nation. Let THEM feel terror for once.
Will this cause more terrorist acts to be perpetrated against the US? No, it will not. How can I say that? Simple: If we do nothing, the terrorists will be emboldened, and attacks will continue anyway. So if we act, what's the difference? At worst, we have the same situation as before. However, if we strike hard at the government and military of the country that sheltered them, hopefully other countries that sponsor terrorism will get the message, and stop. With no one to pay the bills, terrorist cells will have a hard time pulling off large-scale operations.
Note that I said "government" in earlier paragraphs. I harbor no malice towards the general populace of ANY nation, race, or religion. But the leaders that allowed these terrorists to operate within their borders are just as guilty as the men that piloted the Boeings into the towers and the Pentagon, and they must pay their debt. And they must be an example to any other government that would do what they did. If no nation harbors or helps terrorists again, then terrorists will once again be loners making pipe bombs in their basements. It's not enough, but it will have to do.
For peace to have a chance, both sides must want it. These terrorists don't. So there can be no forgiveness, only retribution.
If you think I'm an idiot, or a lunatic, or a person filled with hatred for the universe, you are wrong. I'm just very, very tired of being hated just because I happened to be born in the United States. I'm sick of being a target for someone that gets his jollies blowing other people up. I'm sick of people that say "America had it coming," as if the misguided actions of the US government 35 or more years ago excuses the wholesale slaughter of innocent people today, many of whom who weren't even born when the first American soldier set foot in Viet Nam. And I'm especially tired of people that are so naive that they think these animals will stop if I give them a bouquet of flowers and tell them I love them. I don't know why they became what they are, and I don't care. They weren't victims of anyone that died in those towers, or on those jets. I don't care what the reasons are for their behavior. I just want them all dead.
I wish I did not feel this way. When I went to sleep Monday night, I didn't. But the person I was died Tuesday morning, and I don't know how to bring him back. |
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Response | by kelvron | 2001-09-13 15:35:03 |
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Well said | by sfam | 2001-09-13 17:22:22 |
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