In a message dated 10/26/01 1:21:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >All we are saying is give peace a chance.
I'd like to chime in here. I don't believe in giving peace any more of a chance than it's already gotten (remember, the Taliban had a month to turn over bin laden). Frankly, I think all this peace talk does not reflect reality. Remember the 6,000 people who were killed? We didn't ask for that, and if we don't strike back, we're saying their lives are in essence worthless. Kill our people and we'll give you lots of aid. Huh? All through the 90's, we failed to retaliate when struck and now we get this. There are a lot of people who hate us. I don't care why they hate us; they just do. Whether it's our fault or not (and I think much of it is not) is beside the point. We have to strike back when we are attacked this violently. I agree that there has been a very great deal of anti-American sentiment expressed on this site. It's gone beyond criticizing to demonizing. When you paint the US as more evil than the Taliban and Bin Laden, which I think a number of these posts have done, you demonize us. I've seen too many emails along the lines of "poor victim bin laden, protecting his culture against the evil US". That is demonizing us. My feelings on pacifism were expressed by columnist Michael Kelly: Pacifism http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26290-2001Sep26.html his response to angry readers http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61527-2001Oct3.html A number of you are going to be offended by this. I'm sorry, but I've been equally offended at all of the "evil US" stuff I've been hearing around here lately. For example, that IMO disgusting editorial by Barbara Kingsolver. When people strike us like that, we just can't roll over and die. Mary
