Mhari
Really Really Experienced
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- Oct 21, 2003
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This whole thread is really just sort of...wow.
I agree with a lot of things people have said there...and I disagree with a lot of things (often said by the same people who have said things that I agree with).
The problem is that there are no easy answers. Non-Americans tend to say that the US is a big bully and we get involved where we shouldn't...yet when things get tough, other countries often turn to the US for aid. Some here have said that the US does nothing without an ulterior motive. Does that somehow negate the actions themselves? (I'm talking about the good ones, in this case.) The funding that the US gives to organizations all over the world...that counts for nothing? (And yeah, I read the things Svenska posted on the qualifications the Moron Administartion has put on some of that funding. I guess it's good that at least the funding is still there.)
Terrorists come in all shapes and sizes. I find Ann Coulter's words...I don't think I even have the right words to describe what I think of them. But like Colly, I would point out the date of those first articles. A lot of people said things they didn't really mean, in the shock of the aftermath. (Tell me none of you have ever said things you later regretted, when you were upset or angry or overwrought.) Like shereads, though, one of my first acts was to do what I could to make sure innocent Muslims didn't take the brunt of what a few did. That doesn't mean I supported the terrorism, by any means.
This whole National Homeland Security stuff makes me ill. I feel like we should all be wearing jackboots and armbands with swastikas. The whole "war on terrorism" seems to me to be an excuse to impose restrictions on the American people that we normally wouldn't tolerate. But it's hard to know what the right answer here is, either. Does anyone know if patting down air passengers for their deadly tweezers has actually prevented further acts of terrorism within the US?
This has been rambly, I know. I'm still half-asleep. Hope I made a few cogent points...
I agree with a lot of things people have said there...and I disagree with a lot of things (often said by the same people who have said things that I agree with).
The problem is that there are no easy answers. Non-Americans tend to say that the US is a big bully and we get involved where we shouldn't...yet when things get tough, other countries often turn to the US for aid. Some here have said that the US does nothing without an ulterior motive. Does that somehow negate the actions themselves? (I'm talking about the good ones, in this case.) The funding that the US gives to organizations all over the world...that counts for nothing? (And yeah, I read the things Svenska posted on the qualifications the Moron Administartion has put on some of that funding. I guess it's good that at least the funding is still there.)
Terrorists come in all shapes and sizes. I find Ann Coulter's words...I don't think I even have the right words to describe what I think of them. But like Colly, I would point out the date of those first articles. A lot of people said things they didn't really mean, in the shock of the aftermath. (Tell me none of you have ever said things you later regretted, when you were upset or angry or overwrought.) Like shereads, though, one of my first acts was to do what I could to make sure innocent Muslims didn't take the brunt of what a few did. That doesn't mean I supported the terrorism, by any means.
This whole National Homeland Security stuff makes me ill. I feel like we should all be wearing jackboots and armbands with swastikas. The whole "war on terrorism" seems to me to be an excuse to impose restrictions on the American people that we normally wouldn't tolerate. But it's hard to know what the right answer here is, either. Does anyone know if patting down air passengers for their deadly tweezers has actually prevented further acts of terrorism within the US?
This has been rambly, I know. I'm still half-asleep. Hope I made a few cogent points...