OT: World in shock
The attacks on the WTC and Pentagon have left us shocked, grieving, and mad as hell.
At least 4,756 people are dead. They did nothing to deserve this. There was no warning to it, no sense to it. The terrorists wanted to kill as many Americans as they could, nothing else, they wanted nothing else.
The heart cries out, I want revenge!.
But revenge on who?
We must not be callous. We must not be self rightous, blindly convinced of our virtue in this war. We’ve seen what callousness causes when AA 11 and UA 175 crashed into the Twin Towers. We saw what callousness and self-rightousness causes when we watched in horror as people jumped to their deaths to escape the flames.
These terrorists have focused on terrorizing us after years of terrorizing their own countrymen. The ordinary Afghan is as much a victim as we are. Victims should show solidarity. They are our allies.
These attacks were not just against the Twin Towers, or the Pentagon, or even America. They were against a hope, a dream. A idea of democracy as against an idea of perverted theology, of perverted Islam.
If we attack innocent Afghani’s, our idea will lose. The terrorists will win this war if we allow ourselves to be like them.