Posted by Jay AKA The Letter J at a030-0269.phl2.splitrock.net on September 11, 2001 at 13:22:48:
In Reply to: NOBODY deserves to die as a result of politics posted by sparkythewonderpenguin on September 11, 2001 at 13:17:09:
: Fuck no, I am not intellectually coward, my position is that alot of people are going to want to KILL to avenge what happened, no excuse can be made for what have happened. Fuck this, I am saying though that this probably was avoidable. What is wrong here is most likely that we DID GO ABOUT BUSINESS AS USUAL, or more precisely BUSINESS AT ANY COST... Fuck, we need to do something about this shit, but a reactionnary retaliation will lead to a world war in a nuclear age, do we want this: FUCK NO. We need to address why this happened so that it NEVER happens again. Going to war will not do this. Going to war will make the problem worst. My previous post was to point out that terrorism is not only against american interests, but that america also commits terrorist acts, and that these might have lead to the horrors we have to deal with now. This attack didn't not come out of thin air. The scale that it has taken is astounding and I do not wish to tone it down in any way. this attack was incredibly cruel and evil. I would love to write some more on this one, but I need to go now.
: Everyone take care.
: : This reaction sickens me.
: : Are you suggesting we DESERVE to have tens of thousands of civilians injured and killed? Or that we should kjust say, "shucks, nobody's perfect, and who are we to judge?" and just go about business as usual?
: : I pray that your cowardly (both real-world cowardly, and intellectually cowardly) position is in the VAST minority.
i hate this. we try to make peace with foreign countries and this is hwo thy repay us? by taking the lives of over 50,000 innocent people? fuck no! i just can't imagine that one person could have been behind all this fucking choas. it just so unimagineable, i really hate this. but i would like to extend my prayers to any victims of this.