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Re: what a lousy way to get a day off
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Sep 12, 2001 - 08:34 PM
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in honesty as an industrial country, we have to protect our interests and the people involved in those interests. First and foremost.
Yes, the U.S. is a big fat bully. Yes, we've stuck our noses out where they don't belong.
In WWII there were already german military officials that were cooperating with the allies and the us to get rid of hitler, as they felt he was destroying and exploiting the motherland and her people. I know a lot of germans that don't know enough about WWII (as it is pretty much a taboo subject in europe) to MAKE a statement like "we feel the us has destroyed our destiny."
The only russians that would feel that way about the us are survivng old timer communists and bullshivicks (I KNOW that's spelled wrong...so I'm not good at russian *shrug*) like the modern day fanatical southern confederates that cling to the past.
The us is friends with those two countries....it's been a tense and strained history with both of those countries, but we're all equally grateful that we are all getting along just fine now. We helped pave the way for bringing down the berlin wall and the iron curtain.
We paved the way for a democratic society that they would have demanded but would be shot for wispering about. For as much miserable crap we've put them through, we've helped them along as well,
The peace corps travel all around the world feeding, clothing, giving medical attention to those unfortunate, starving while their own governments eat fat and spend the money they should be feeding their people with on bombs.
When you have the means, how can you turn a blind eye? If we don't, we are those selfish uncaring americans. If we DO, we put ourselves at risk as being "shitdisturbers". It's a no win situation.
Part of being a superpower is not only taking care of yourself...it's taking care of, protecting, fighting for the ones that in an indirect way made your success possible. It's a difficult predicament, and the losing side of it isn't ever pretty. When the Iraquis were burning Kuwaiiti oil fields, and murdering the citizens, are we going to let the people of the country that supplied us with some of the cheapest gas prices of the decade burn? That for your country is suicide. If you don't want to pay $10 a gallon for the gasoline in your car, you take out the guys infringing on your interests...you protect the people.
It's a different mindset over there...it's a different society where things like the trade center attack are commonplace...where a 6yr old is skilled in assembling and cleaning machine guns...where you can't imagine what that 6yr old has been told by a bias minded mommy and daddy.
Part of being a big dog is sticking your nose where it doesn't necessarily belong, and sometimes you get bit.
BUt this wasn't the government and all it's henchmen that got bit. It wasn't a military instalation that got bit. This isn't during a war...or it wasn't. These were not people in uniform. This is out of the blue, a direct attack on AMERICANS, not as much as america.
In my honest opinion, in the case of germany, after all the crud finally dissapated, the allies (not just the us, there were several other countries involved) had done europe and germany a favor by saving not only ourselves from them, the free world from them, but from themselves.
I don't know the answers more than anyone else here. I've not spoken to a foreign leader or Bin Lauden himself. I'm as confused and hurt and scared as the rest of us. I hate this had to happen at all. I hate that the deathtoll will be higher than any military battle on us soil in history. I hate that all those people lost their co workers, their families, their loves.
I hate this, I hate this, I hate this!
But I truly don't think that we brought it on ourselves. The people in those buildings didnt. And as much as
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