Jeroen wrote:
> I realize it is not what you want to hear right now. OTOH, I do not think
> that your continuous ranting about getting revenge and striking back with
> nuclear weapons is something anyone really wants to hear right now either.
>
> You have a difficult time ahead of you, Gautam. By the time the
> investigation reaches the point where the question "why?" is asked, the
> behaviour of the US will be examined in great detail. There will be
> questions (and answers) you may not want or like to hear. Get used to it.
>
> Jeroen
>
Gautam wrote:
> I'm sure that you _think_ that you can supply answers that we will not like
> - but they're not answers. Because they are not truth. You don't seem to
> have a problem with abandoning Israel. But - and I know that I speak for
> most Americans in this - we do. We will not abandon the only democracy in
> the Middle East. You may not like that fact. As you said, get used to it.
> The United States of America will always stand behind the Jewish people in
> their struggle for survival.
>
> Here is what is not going to happen. We're not going to abandon Israel to
> its enemies. We're not going to retreat from the world. We are not going
> to acknowledge that all of the enemies of freedom and democracy around the
> world who are celebrating today are right. We are not going to say that we
> deserved to have this happen to us. We will not agree to the vile lie that
> the grievances of our enemies justified what happened today. We will not
> do Bin Laden's work for him, as you would have us do. We will not appease
> terrorists. We will not make peace with the devil. We will not surrender.
>
> Here is what _is_ going to happen. We will survive. We will rebuild the
> World Trade Center. We will stand by our friends - like Israel. We will
> hunt down Bin Laden and his allies and make them feel the strength of our
> justice. We will do so through the courts if possible, with special forces
> and the CIA if that is not possible, and with the full might of the
> American armed forces if necessary. We will spare innocents when we can,
> but we will not allow our enemies to hide behind innocents in the hope of
> protecting themselves from our just retribution. We will do everything
> possible to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again - to us or
> to our allies. And that includes Israel, however unhappy you may be about
> that. We will heal the wounded, mourn the dead, cherish the living, and go
> on to brighter and better things than anyone could possibly imagine.
>
> Gautam
What the hell does getting answers (the "why" of the attack) have
to do with abandoning Israel? That last post reads like the
Chewbacca defense.
So far we have "What", "Where", and "When". We still need "Who",
so we can have a target to go after, and "Why", so that we can maybe
do something about the underlying causes and prevent future events.
It could be entirely possible that we can't do anything about the
underlying causes -- but we'll still need to know them.
-- Matt
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