Hi all, Okie, first, go through the article below... Now, guess what? I believe the same thing was told by Saddaq Hussein and Osama Bin Laden to their people, when they are suffering because of US policies. Exactly the same thing. US is telling its people what its enemies used to tell their people, how sarcastic. Make no mistake, I feel real sad for all the victims in the current tragedy, it is a tragedy for all human, not just US people. Make no mistake, I hate those Islam Extremist more than you, and I don't like Islam at all, because there are always wars. But make no mistake, I don't like any kind of terrorism, no matter it is civilized terrorism by US or babaric terrorism by Osama, no difference. Somehow, you have to stay cool, sit down, and rethink your position, not simply revenge revenge and revenge which only cause endless death. What most US people show is that: "Our lifes are lifes, Yours are not" Flame me if you want, but before that, think. Think. p.s. you really have to read the article below... just replace the country name... Wednesday, September 12, 2001, 4:28:15 PM, you wrote: PC> All, this should sum it up... PC> http://www.miami.com/herald/content/features/columnists/pitts/digdocs/000565.htm PC> Leonard Pitts Jr. PC> Published Wednesday, September 12, 2001 PC> We'll go forward from this moment PC> It's my job to have something to say. PC> They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that PC> which troubles the American soul. But in this moment of PC> airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the PC> only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem to PC> fit, must be addressed to the unknown author of this PC> suffering. PC> You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. PC> What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack PC> on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you PC> hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you PC> failed. PC> Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your PC> cause. PC> Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve. PC> Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together. PC> Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and PC> quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, PC> political and class division, but a family nonetheless. PC> We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous PC> emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's PC> revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse. PC> We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of PC> trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we PC> walk through life with a certain sense of blithe PC> entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though -- PC> peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the PC> right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming PC> majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and PC> loving God. PC> Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this PC> makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we PC> are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals. PC> IN PAIN PC> Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in PC> shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of the awful PC> thing you did, still working to make ourselves understand PC> that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood PC> blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy PC> novel. Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition PC> and the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely PC> to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the history of PC> the United States and, probably, the history of the world. PC> You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before. PC> But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody PC> and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to PC> its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, the PC> last time anyone brought us such abrupt and monumental pain. PC> When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in PC> our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will PC> bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the PC> pursuit of justice. PC> I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my PC> people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. PC> It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future. PC> In the days to come, there will be recrimination and PC> accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure PC> allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it PC> from happening again. There will be heightened security, PC> misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward PC> from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, PC> too. Unimaginably determined. PC> THE STEEL IN US PC> You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. PC> That aspect of our character is seldom understood by people PC> who don't know us well. On this day, the family's bickering PC> is put on hold. PC> As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and PC> as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we PC> cherish. PC> So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs PC> to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of PC> your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message PC> received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know PC> my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't PC> know what you just started. PC> But you're about to learn. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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