Don't tell me to calm down
Sep. 13th, 2001 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onemuseleft"We need a peaceful resolution to this."
"No country that fought America would have a chance. It wouldn't be a fair fight."
"How do we know it was an unprovoked attack?"
"I don't want innocent people to die."
That's what I keep hearing on my MLs and I'm about to bitch slap someone. *I* don't want innocent people to die, God forbid it should happen. But while they're talking about innocents in foreign countries have they stopped to think about the thousands of innocent people killed in those explosions? The hundreds of brave firefighters and medics buried alive beneath falling rubble? The thousands of family members and friends left to suffer?
Are they thinking about the fact that next time it'll be worse because if we "just let it go" these murderers won't have *any* reason to hold themselves back? That next time it'll be tens of thousands instead of thousands? That next time it'll be NY, DC *and* LA? That next time it'll be too late to realize we have to do something?
I spent four months in London, a country where they don't have public garbage cans because people put bombs in them. While I was there I lived through the IRA bombing of the BBC, a bomb in atrashcan, THREE bomb threats on the tube (subway) and riots complete with molotov cocktails. I don't want America to be like that. And if it takes an unbalanced war - either against terrorism or the country that sponsors it - to prove that we have the ability to defend ourselves against an unprovoked, cowardly, terrorist attack then that's what it takes. I hate War. I hate death. I don't want anyone to die.
But I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a bomb shelter either.
Am I angry? YES. I know people who were in that building. I know people who should have been in that building.
Do I want revenge? Probably yes. I'll admit it. I want someone to be held responsible for this.
Do I want justice? More than anything.
Do I want to make sure that I'm not going to be killed by a fucking coward while I'm doing nothing but going to work? Yes.
I don't want this to happen again. That means making sure that whoever did it is caught and held accountable. And if that means holding an entire country accountable, then I'll pray for the children.
The one thing you can say for America, despite all else - we have NEVER intentionally done what they just did to us.
Darq, if you read this, I understand how you're feeling.
And if I just pissed anyone off, I'm sorry, but being told that my friends lives weren't worth fighting back for pisses me off more than you can know.
"No country that fought America would have a chance. It wouldn't be a fair fight."
"How do we know it was an unprovoked attack?"
"I don't want innocent people to die."
That's what I keep hearing on my MLs and I'm about to bitch slap someone. *I* don't want innocent people to die, God forbid it should happen. But while they're talking about innocents in foreign countries have they stopped to think about the thousands of innocent people killed in those explosions? The hundreds of brave firefighters and medics buried alive beneath falling rubble? The thousands of family members and friends left to suffer?
Are they thinking about the fact that next time it'll be worse because if we "just let it go" these murderers won't have *any* reason to hold themselves back? That next time it'll be tens of thousands instead of thousands? That next time it'll be NY, DC *and* LA? That next time it'll be too late to realize we have to do something?
I spent four months in London, a country where they don't have public garbage cans because people put bombs in them. While I was there I lived through the IRA bombing of the BBC, a bomb in atrashcan, THREE bomb threats on the tube (subway) and riots complete with molotov cocktails. I don't want America to be like that. And if it takes an unbalanced war - either against terrorism or the country that sponsors it - to prove that we have the ability to defend ourselves against an unprovoked, cowardly, terrorist attack then that's what it takes. I hate War. I hate death. I don't want anyone to die.
But I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a bomb shelter either.
Am I angry? YES. I know people who were in that building. I know people who should have been in that building.
Do I want revenge? Probably yes. I'll admit it. I want someone to be held responsible for this.
Do I want justice? More than anything.
Do I want to make sure that I'm not going to be killed by a fucking coward while I'm doing nothing but going to work? Yes.
I don't want this to happen again. That means making sure that whoever did it is caught and held accountable. And if that means holding an entire country accountable, then I'll pray for the children.
The one thing you can say for America, despite all else - we have NEVER intentionally done what they just did to us.
Darq, if you read this, I understand how you're feeling.
And if I just pissed anyone off, I'm sorry, but being told that my friends lives weren't worth fighting back for pisses me off more than you can know.
