----- Original Message ----- From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 10:08 AM Subject: RE: Scouted: Commentary: Why Europe Sides Against the Jews / time.com
> From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > How hard did the American population try to join the fight against > > terrorism after planes crashed into the WTC and the Pentagon last year? > > What exactly did you expect us to do? Fly over to Afganistan and join the > fight? We haven't been exactly "hiding in the basement"! That is a > terribly insulting insinuation. We are going on with our lives as best we > can. That's the ONLY thing that I can do to show the terrorists that they > didn't and can't win. This one is kinda insulting in light of Jeroens claim that we wanted to Nuke Afghanastan last year. He either claims that we are too extreme or not extreme enough. > > Everyone I have talked to had to take a good hard look at themselves after > Sept 11th. And think about what they would have done if they had been on > Flight 93. And every single person I have talked to had said that they > would fight. Even if they knew it would result in their deaths. I would > fight, even though I know that I wouldn't do much good (I have no training > and am not in great physical shape). But if I could distract a terrorist > long enough for someone else to clobber him, I'd gladly do it, even if that > meant getting stabbed, cut, shot, or whatever. > John, I think many Americans agree with you, and by extension Dr Brins assessment that the paradigm changed on Flight 93. I would be willing to bet that Jeroen would make that ultimate sacrifice in an obviously worthy yet hopeless cause. xponent Lets Roll Maru rob
