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Thread #38839   Message #547758
Posted By: flattop
11-Sep-01 - 11:55 PM
Thread Name: AMERICAN ATTACKS- - - PART FIVE
Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS- - - PART FIVE
Perhaps I miss-interpreted what you were saying Spaw. Sorry.

Troll wrote, 'Those who are guilty must pay. Those who are innocent should not.'

We can completely ignore the fact that he used a weaker verb to protect the innocent than revenge the guilty. What I'd like to know is, if these enemies of the U.S., feel that Americans have been guilty of destroying their families and their lives and they say, 'Those who are guilty must pay, those who are innocent should not,' where does the game end? who has the high moral ground? who has the right to kill who?

The other issue that is being ignored in the heat of the moment is that this attack proves that our western countries are completely vulnerable to attack from people with limited resouces. I thought that we were vulnerable in hundreds of areas but I would never have imagined such a dramatic attack on major centres. Billions of dollars in armaments and all the conceit in the western world did not prevent this attack.

This must be obvious to anyone that we pick to be our enemies. What if they feel that justice will be done if they kill one of us for each one of their killed? Are we ready for games like that?