At 10:08 28-04-2002 -0500, John Horn wrote: > > 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.
Gautam apparently believed all Europeans should have stood up, grabbed something that could be used as a weapon, and go fight against the Nazis. The purpose of my post was to point out that while he expects that from Europe, there were several cases in the US where the population should have done the same but did not. Hence the "he who is without sin". He scolds Europeans for not doing what (in his opinion) they should have done, but I do not see him criticising Americans for the same lack of action. After the September 11 attacks, the entire US population called for action against the terrorists. But how many of them did actually go out and join the military so they could fight? One in 10,000? One in a 100,000? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
