alright, i'm jumping into this kind of late, but here's my point of view:
first of all i listened to some parents i know debate over the whole thing with other parents i know from south africa. The south african people made a good point: terrorisim does happen all over the world. obviously it's not on such a big scale, but it does happen. Things like grenades being thrown into schools happens all the time where these people come from. So from an american prespective, the idea of terrorisim was so foregin before 9/11 that we really didn't understand it personally. then it happens to us, and on such a large scale, and everyone starts freaking out.
I don't mean to bash america or americans, not at all, but i don't think it's right that we should be so exclusive about it. it's like we demand everyone's pity and attention and we're using it to an unfair advantage. I do support a countries right to defend itself, but it would be arrogant, in my opinion, to try and go about this whole thing, this whole war on terrorisim, single handedly. And from what Strangler said about the UN f-cking up, that may be true in some cases, but honestly the US has poked its nose around in some stupid ways. Consider things like somolia (ya know, black hawk down) was that really a good idea? Hell, please tell me were veitnam got us. And when you think about it, part of the reason these terrorists hate us so much is because we poked around where we shouldn't have been poking. The russians invaded afghanistan, and we came in and got the support of the afgahns to rise up against the russians. Mission completed, the US just packed up and left, leaving most of the afgahn population in poverty. I would be a little pissed if someone said "help us fight this war, and we'll uhhhh.... BYE"
of course none of this gives reason to kill thousands of innocents, but i don't think the US is making a smart move in trying to take on international terrorism, without international support and agreement.
and strangler, you keep saying that nobody knows what they're talking about. what i've said here is simply what i have heard and learned. you keep making such generalized and drastic statements about the UN... well, how do you "know what you're talking about"?
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