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quote:Originally posted by CorvusB:
...I would cry like a baby if the president called a press conference and say 'Whatever we did to you to deserve this, we're sorry. How can we make things right?' I suppose this makes me a bad american, but this incident doesn't make me angry; it makes me sorry. Sorry for not doing everything I could have to make my government the good guy that it claims to be, because I can't honestly say that we don't deserve this.
So now everyone who doesn't like a particular country should attack it and get an apology? Don't think so. This sort of terrorist behaviour is unnacceptable no matter what the "cause". We deserve to have possibly 10,000 people killed by terrorists because our government did or didn't do something that suited them?
I can't imagine where you are coming from. I am trying to understand, but having a REALLY hard time.
What does being a 'good guy' mean? We are often in a damned if you do/damned if you don't situation - if we don't take action and help other countries or groups in countries we are isolationist and self centered. If we do take action and help other countries or groups of people we are imperialistic, evil, and trying to enforce the new world order. While I don't often agree with our international decisions, I can't see where this action was an appropriate response to any of them.
Don't forget this action was as much of a declaration of war as any actual country could muster. At this point I think the response will be in kind to whoever turns out responsible.
As far as an apology being an appropriate response, I doubt an apology from the Great Satan would carry much weight.
If you really think we deserved this, I feel sorry for you.
[ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Verbal Kint ] |
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