Re: World Trade Center
Grishny, on host 12.29.132.98
Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at 13:09:15
Re: World Trade Center posted by Christopher on Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at 12:17:48:
> Meanwhile, I have been trying to get as much information as I have possibly been able to get about the attacks. After seeing the second plane crash into the tower, however, millions of times from millions of angles, I am quite sick of seeing it any more.
So am I. So are a lot of us.
> The UK press really went over the top - to the extent that every single paper had exactly the same picture on it covering the whole page. I got a chance to read the Guardian, the Times and the Telegraph today, and they all came to the same conclusions - it was a monstrosity, Osama bin Laden (or whatever his name is) is to blame whether he says so or not and the US is going to get its revenge on whoever co-ordinated the attacks.
"Revenge" isn't what we want. Well, that may not be true, but revenge is not what we *should* want. Killing thousands of their innocent civilians in retribution for our thousands dead wouldn't make me feel anything but worse. What we want is to bring the guilty to justice, and that's a lot harder to accomplish than petty revenge.
> All of this is understandable - everyone needs a scrapegoat when something as audacious and attrocious as this happens - but no-one should jump to conclusions. To do so would be like a playground feud, only with people's lives involved.
Agreed.
I listened breifly to the Rush Limbaugh show while I was out getting lunch this afternoon, and heard a listener who had called in advocating his belief that we should "nuke 'em." His rationale was that these people, like the Japanese in WW2, are willing to die to the last man in the fight for their cause. He said we need to show them that we're willing to take their last man, and that using nuclear weapons on them is the only way to do this, just like using the atomic bomb on the Japanese was the only way to end WW2.
I personally don't agree with this idea. We aren't facing a centrally-located enemy like we were during WW2. These types of terrorist groups seem to be spread out all over the world. It seems to me that it would be impossible to use doomsday weaponry to strike at these orgnanizations without also doing irreparable collateral damage to ourselves and other innocents in the process. Your thoughts?
Gri"now, if we could Duke Nuk'em...that'd be different"shny
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