I know a lot of responses have come in since I last was online. All of
yesterday, I could not get online at all. So I couldn't really respond until
today.
Jennifer, I will simply echo what others have said: I never said to kill a
bunch of people. I said to kill the terrorists responsible for planning
this, once we have determined exactly who they are. That's what I meant.
Terrorism is very difficult to fight because terrorists tend to shield
themselves behind innocent people. But it has to be fought, and we should
try to minimize the loss of life as much as possible.
I am sure the government and the FBI are doing their best, and that they
will find out exactly who is responsible. Right now I think our efforts as a
country should be in helping those who were affected, and in rebuilding. I
have family living on the Lower East Side who have only what's in their
fridge this morning, and no immediate way of getting food in their area. I
have a father-in-law who can't operate his business because he can't get
shipments out of the area. And of course, all those people who are missing
and presumed dead ... It will take us a long time to get back to normal. But
that's what we should be concentrating on right now.
Judith
> At 10:23 PM 9/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Bottom line is -- we're not safe until the terrorists are dead. They're
> >basically homocidal maniacs (often religious homocidal maniacs) on a much
> >larger scale. And as long as they're free, they'll keep on killing.
>
> But does that in itself justify killing a bunch of people?
>
> Some things are more important than our immediate safety. It is in our
> immediate interest to kill all terrorists, but that will only prove the
> ideals of the terrorists to future terrorists. It is safer for us to kill
> all the terrorists until there are too many to kill. In is in our long
term
> interests to locate the individuals responsible, giving them a trial in an
> unbiased jurisdiction, and eliminating them individually. Otherwise we
> perpetuate the reason for this action.
>
> There is no easy solution, but proving the beliefs of the terrorists will
> only make the overall picture worse. If we stoop to their level we lose.
If
> we handle this in a good way, we prove the terrorists wrong and that will
> do more to eliminating behavior like this than killing al of the
terrorists.
>
> We need to understand the information war and use that to our advantage.
>
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>
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