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[catelin]

Thanks, PJammer for bringing this piece of shit to my attention. The sheer fucking callous ignorance of this just floors me. SHAME ON YOU!

millarca sez:
There was once a big bully that thought it was OK to pick on people, and third world countries. One day the bully's enemies got together and decided there were force in numbers.

The people got together and rallied for social and political change. When their cries went unheard they took measures into their own hands, and started fighting back.

Now the bully is crying, and calling them terrorist.

I call them freedom fighters!

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I am overwhelmed with the complexity of my own reactions -- utter grief for the families' and friends of those killed, anger at Bush's foreign policy, anger at my own complicity for letting him assume office without camping out to protest in the streets of D.C., disbelief that anyone could commit these crimes, and anger at my own country's thorough-going leadership and participation in terrorism on an international level; in South and Central America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia. The rhetoric out of Washington is simplistic and frightening. Instead of evaluating what Bush (and all of us) has done to foment resentment and anger against the U.S., the congressmen are demanding that spending on education and health care stop and "war" against terrorism begin. I believe that we should seek justice against the groups that are responsible for these terrible acts, but if we do not identify and take responsibility for our own godless atrocities as a nation, we truly are doomed to a world of terrorism, a world of our own creating.

The attacks on the Trade Center are called a tragedy by the news corps, with seemingly no awareness of the definition of the word "tragedy". It is a terrible outcome as a result of a fatal internal flaw. In this case, the flaw is not simply that of Islamic extremists; it is of the United States. I cannot seem to shake a profound sense of guilt, of complicity in the state of the world, of my own role as a consuming, greedy american.

Did you ever see "The Year of Living Dangerously"? ...
What then must we do?