What is the world coming to...
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=LycosPolitics&storyId=47644
Once I clear my mind of the spite and anger, I have to wonder what these people think they are achieving... about all they are succeeding in doing is provoking the US into a level of action beyond that which we really even want to take, the US being the type of society who respects life too much to randomly kill even those who harbor our enemies.
But there is a breaking point to any level of constraint in a conflict and by persisting they are only heightening the threat of large-scale retaliation in which their own brothers, wives and children would surely perish, like ours did in their attacks.
I would do anything to prevent harm from coming to my family; all they need to do is "nothing". Yet the acts continue as they taunt and fuel the fire more each day, but to what end? Are they so naive that they believe they can actually hurt the United States, the global superpower, with their sub-guerilla hate crimes? I doubt anyone is that delusionary. Not even the Taliban.
So what is behind it? Are they trying to force a level of retaliation from us that achieves some goal for them? What is the underlying strategy? There must be one??
Either they are incredibly smart or incredibly stupid - there is no middle ground in what's going on now. Is it possible that humans in the 21st Century are so ridiculously derranged that they actually feel justified to do what was done in NYC and the Pentagon and to feel 'good' about it? Well I guess there are still aboriginal tribes in the jungle even today, so it's possible that there is no brilliant plot to all this, just the vicerally hateful acts of terrorism in a derranged political faction of humanity, and I use this term loosely.
If there is no masterminded, incredibly devious covert international plot behind all this carnage and hate then I am really depressed about how far **** sapiens has (hasn't) come over several million years. And if there is such a devious plot, I would wonder if perhaps we haven't come too far.
If our actions define who/what we are, I am sure glad to be a flyfisherman.
Thanks for letting me vent. May we hold our heads high and take the high road forever.
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=LycosPolitics&storyId=47644
Once I clear my mind of the spite and anger, I have to wonder what these people think they are achieving... about all they are succeeding in doing is provoking the US into a level of action beyond that which we really even want to take, the US being the type of society who respects life too much to randomly kill even those who harbor our enemies.
But there is a breaking point to any level of constraint in a conflict and by persisting they are only heightening the threat of large-scale retaliation in which their own brothers, wives and children would surely perish, like ours did in their attacks.
I would do anything to prevent harm from coming to my family; all they need to do is "nothing". Yet the acts continue as they taunt and fuel the fire more each day, but to what end? Are they so naive that they believe they can actually hurt the United States, the global superpower, with their sub-guerilla hate crimes? I doubt anyone is that delusionary. Not even the Taliban.
So what is behind it? Are they trying to force a level of retaliation from us that achieves some goal for them? What is the underlying strategy? There must be one??
Either they are incredibly smart or incredibly stupid - there is no middle ground in what's going on now. Is it possible that humans in the 21st Century are so ridiculously derranged that they actually feel justified to do what was done in NYC and the Pentagon and to feel 'good' about it? Well I guess there are still aboriginal tribes in the jungle even today, so it's possible that there is no brilliant plot to all this, just the vicerally hateful acts of terrorism in a derranged political faction of humanity, and I use this term loosely.
If there is no masterminded, incredibly devious covert international plot behind all this carnage and hate then I am really depressed about how far **** sapiens has (hasn't) come over several million years. And if there is such a devious plot, I would wonder if perhaps we haven't come too far.
If our actions define who/what we are, I am sure glad to be a flyfisherman.
Thanks for letting me vent. May we hold our heads high and take the high road forever.