Quote (tric-isHUGE @ Sep 10 2010 09:15pm)
9/11 is a tragedy. A horrible event in which many lives were ruined.
But
Under no circumstance should we remember and scorn the wrong things.
The only way we can make better the deaths of 9/11 is to understand why their deaths occurred. Cheap, shortcut answers like, "they hate us for our freedom" and other nonsense is a dishonor to those who died.
The only way to make 9/11 better is if we take the time to listen and understand and educate ourselves on the reasons and the people who attacked us.
We all know that to truly understand an controversial issue, you have to educate and listen to both sides of the argument.
So logically it follows that if we do not listen to those who attacked us, we can never find a path to peace. We can never undo the damage done on 9/11, but if we are smart enough, if we are not demagogued by our leaders for political gain, we can learn from our mistakes and make sure that a similar event never happens on our land again.
We can live in peace, we can not kill our way a better world. It will never happen. In fact, it will end with our ability to finance our aggressive policies, which is shortly coming to an end.
so we can be dominated by the russians or chinese?
nty
id rather have our shitty politicians than the chinese or russians