This is not to minimize the loss and pain of anyone who lost someone in 9/11. However, I wonder some things. No one who loses someone they loved will ever be the same as before their personal tragedy.
Just under 3000 people from 82 countries lost their lives not 3000 Americans as politicians keep saying. 82 countries did not attack Iraq who we all know had nothing to do with 9/11. What gave us any more right to attack a sovereign nation for lies than the Saudis had to fly their airplane into the WTC?
The 9/11 attacks were horrible, but what about the three weeks of shock and awe and then the following violence that the Iraqis have suffered at our hands since March 2003? Didn’t we inflict more pain and damage on innocents than the Saudis did during those few hours in one day?
Innocent civilians have been attacked by the US in Pakistan this past week. Does that mean Pakistan will subject the US to five and a half years of constant violence and of course if they won’t we have to agree with the action because they are merely doing what we did?
More Americans and many times more Iraqis have died than were killed in 9/11. Does multiplying the number of useless deaths make any sense as a memorial to those that did die five years ago?
What right does the US have to attack innocents but act shocked and outraged when it happens to us?
Wouldn’t it have been better to have worked as hard on peace than on the havoc and destruction the US has caused?
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Thank you! You said this so well. Unfortunately most times I've tried to say this same thing to people....they tend to look at me as if I am the most evil person on earth.
Looking at these other aspects and other deaths doesn't minimize those 3000 deaths in any way. Unless, of course, we agree that American deaths are much, much worse than the deaths of others. So much so that we'll even appropriate the nationalities of some of the 3000 who were not Americans.
I really liked this one.
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