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Thread #39017   Message #552623
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
17-Sep-01 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: AMERICAN ATTACKS=PART EIGHT.more still
Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS=PART EIGHT.more still
Yes indeed - as I've already indicated, I think it's extremely likely that some people in Great Britain and other parts of Europe may indeed have celebrated when they heard about the bomb, and I couldn't blame them. Insofar as this doesn't seem to have been a widespread reaction, that is very impressive indeed, given the circumstances.

And I still think what I said up the thread was true and relevant, and might help us understand why we saw those horrible scenes of a few people celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers:

People who have been hurt are likely to feel vengeful. When people have lost their loved ones, and had their lives destroyed, noone can blame them if sometimes their anger expressed itself in jubilation when a mortal blow was inflicted on the people they saw as their enemies, while their imaginations failed to appreciate the appalling nature of what had been done.

And that last paragraph could have been about people in August 1945 in Europe or America, or about people in Palestine this week.