Terrorism Strikes the United States

[Jack]

Oh my god... I came home from school yesterday and my mum asked if I've heard the news. I said what news before looking over to the TV on CNN... I swear I almost fell over then. I was hoping it was all just a dream and I would awake, but it was, it is, reality. I can not even begin to think what the poor families of those lost are going through and of the terror those poor innocent people went through, but I send my very best wishes to all those injured, and those lost's families.

 

Take care people and live every day to its max, this just shows you can never be sure when life will just blink out...

 

 

[taezee]

i feel we cannot have our allies just denounce and condem these acts.its time for action...we have been policing the world for the last thirty years and after this our allies need to put up or shut up.....when we decide to strike back..they cannot just stand on the sidelines and watch what happens...we all have to make a stand against these terroist and the countries which harbor these animals and remove them all from the face of the planet...why i ask is suddam hussien and osama bin laden still drawing breath?

 

[ This Message was edited by: taezee on 2001-09-12 10:56 ]

[Goose]

I can't get all of those images out of my mind (from what I've seen on the news), it's just horrible...

 

 

[BlueDragon]

What is your problem?

 

America's allies have contributed to her safety on a thousand occasions. You are right that the US takes the lion share in most military operations but that is part of being the most powerful country on earth. Some one should remind you that while Hitler was raping Europe and Britain stood alone the United States didn't get involved. It took Pearl Harbour to get America into the fight.

[taezee]

this has been compared as the pearl harbor of this century..whats the matter with me is that alot of countries benifit from our protection but when it comes to a call for arms they actually frown upon our military strikes thats my problem...this enemy which struck is an enemy to us all and it is everyones responsibilty to band together now and remove this cancer before it starts to spread.. i notice your from canada..when was the last time canada went to war?

[babysteffee]

Everyone agrees that allies need to be there for America, but a war would only end in more destruction.

 

It is true though...where were America when we were in the middle of (LOSING) a war...they weren't helping us then. Yet the UK is expected to jump when the BIG Boys say so...

 

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with standing by America, but our little country would be obliterated in five minutes if there were to be WW3...surely nobody can possibly be wanting this.

[Kickbutt]

I am the last person to advocate war, however bin Ladin cannot be free to harm more people - hell this already IS a war!! Thousands of people have lost their lives already - already more than in Pearl Harbor!! Don't make the mistake and think that if we all just sit back that everything will be fine...these people do not understand democracy and they would shoot and kill us all at the drop of a hat, they despise us that much. We have no choice - we must fight to protect ourselves and our freedom. Canada was also fighting alongside Britain during the war, but that's really of no importance right now - it's time to stick together and we all enjoy democracy, so it's everyone of us that should fight to protect it.

 

Lori

 

 

[BlueDragon]

Try Kosovo, the Gulf, Korea. Not to mention the october crisis. Sadly americans have gotten a reputation worldwide for ignorance. I see a perfect example in your posts.

 

We have every right to frown on your actions. I believe it constitutes freedom of speech, which all civilised nations have supported for a hundred years.

 

[ This Message was edited by: BlueDragon on 2001-09-12 19:30 ]

[iamrushman]

well; international terrorist don't give a hoot about free speech, religious freedom, your or my ignorance, the lives of unsuspecting and innocent people, or who back up who in the last great war.

 

the only thing they are concerned with is bringing down the western industrialized world's way of life and becoming martars in their own right.

 

and this must be stopped, by any means necessary, no matter what it cost.

 

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[thaiboxerken]

Other countries should support us in this. It took Pearl Harbor to get us to help Europe out in WWII, sure, but so what?! When we got involved, we got the job done, the other countries can't solve their own problems, who helps? The USA does! Who rebuilt France? What thanks do we get for that? What country gives the most charity money per capita? The USA.

 

Here is an article written by a good Canadian that has a little sense:

 

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."

 

We don't need the help of other countries to get these terrorists, we just need them to stay out of our way. Everytime we strike against a country, it seems that many other countries cry out against the USA. What we need after this attack is for the other countries to say "kick their butts!!", that's all.