Originally posted by Zeppelin
i think basicly we all dont want innocent people do get hurt in those attacks BUT when i see demonstrations in countries like pakistan, and here in Gaza, and other places i must ask myself: are those people innocent?
those people spending their lifes in growing their hate towards the non muslim west, while if they would leave their fanatism they could live just as well as we do
i mean those guys hate you just because you have a good life, and you can afford things they cant. most of them are so fanatics that they would shoot any american they can, if they had the chance. they are not that innocent, this is one of the only cases when people should be counted as guilty until proved he is not.
there are too much hate for the west, in the muslim countries and my guess is sooner or later they'll conquer the west if the west wont do something

i know this post is full of hate, but its really hard to me to turn on the news every hour and to find out that the usa and europe prefer to close their eyes on those things, and the usa even will give finance support to pakistan when everyday there are demonstrations of hate against america there.

im not even talking about the plo anymore, where few people were shot down yesterday by their own police because they hold a bin laden support demonstration, when their official possition is supposed to be against him.

I find blanket statements a waste of breath and an affront to logic. I realize that you have an entirely different perspective on this than I do, but also realize that mine is fairly objective- I don't consider a few hundred to a couple thousand people demonstrating in a city of millions to be the will of the people. Maybe the extream manifestation of general public sentiment, but it isn't going make me want to stop my tax dollars being spent to help people. As for the Palistinian and Pakistani governments... I know they know which side their bread is buttered on. I don't like seeing measures being taken to stop protests that would be illegal here in the US, but at the same time I realize that if they aren't taken, a very vocal minority could end up hurting their people a lot more in the long run.

This is a huge task: We have to not only go after a very elusive group of people, but we have to consolidate world opinion to our side. This I think is more a PR battle than a war. The real test of the American people (and the rest of the world for that matter) will come when we face up to the pressures that drive people to hate and to kill. We all have to look to ourselves, we all have to look and say "I'm partly to blame here." The world is a very dynamic system- everything we do relates to everybody else one way or another. I don't see us ever finding total world peace, not in my time, probably not in my children's, but I hope that one day people can learn to live and let live. The world must unify.

In the meantime, all I can do is live my life and brace for impact. To be honest, I'm more afraid of dieing alone than I am of death itself. Afterall, some jerkoff could choke on his coffee on my way to Burlington tomorow, run me off I-89 at 80 mph and into a granite wall.

'nuff said. Terrorists really don't worry me.