Simply put...

Subject: Simply put... (for the anti-US posters)
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 10:05 AM

Dave Barry, known for his humor columns,wrote this... I hope he doesn't mind it being reprinted here.

"They want us to die just for being Americans. They don't care which Americans die: military Americans, civilian Americans, young Americans, old Americans. Baby Americans. They don't care. To them, we're all mortal enemies. The truth is that most Americans, until Tuesday, were only dimly aware of their existence, and posed no threat to them. But that doesn't matter to them; all that matters is that we're Americans. And so they used our own planes to kill us.

And then their supporters celebrated in the streets.

I'm not naive about my country. My country is definitely not always right; my country has at times been terribly wrong. But I know this about Americans: We don't set out to kill innocent people. We don't cheer when innocent people die.

The people who did this to us are monsters; the people who cheered them have hate-sickened minds. One reason they can cheer is that they know we would never do to them what their heroes did to us, even though we could, a thousand times worse. They know that when we hunt down the monsters, we will try hard not to harm the innocent. Those are the handcuffs we willingly wear, because for all our flaws, we are a decent people."

Subject: RE: Simply put...
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 10:49 AM

"We don't set out to kill innocent people." Tomothy McVeigh? John Wayne Gacey? I'm afraid any nation on earth could have spawned fanatics crazy enough to have carried out Tuesday's horror, Nick.