Akiina wrote:
I think we all need to keep in mind that everyone has a personal perspective on 9/11, and just because it isn't how YOU want it to be, you shouldn't freak the fuck out at the perspectives of other people.
We have to realize that there is an entire generation of americans who grew up in a post-9/11 world. People who weren't old enough at the time it happened to realize now how much things have changed since then. They remember the whole thing by what they saw the adults in their life doing or reacting. It's not surprising they might react to the anniversary different than other groups.
On the same note, not everyone is a fucking american. This was a national tragedy, but for our nation-- not every nation. We may have taken our cause to the global level, but the international community will ALWAYS have their own unique perspective on what happened, and on how the United States reacted. They're on the outside looking in, making their own observations, and not under the influence of our government or our media or our marketing. It's absurd to assume they should feel the same way about it.
Personally, I was an adult when it happened. I won't ever forget it, but I won't fucking pretend it still makes me sad or angry either. I don't have any disrespect for the people who died that day, or for the people who died here and abroad in the name of the war on terror in the 10 years since that day. It was tragic. It was scary. It was also TEN years ago.
I don't need a slew of TV specials, or rednecks shouting "MER'CA! FITE TERRRSM!" or a fucking t-shirt to help me remember that day, either. Enlist, or reenlist in the military if it still makes you so angry you have to be a monumental dick to people who don't share your exact feelings about it.
Pretty much this. I'm not going to feign indignation when people point out the truth, that 9/11's have happened throughout history all over the world. I'm also not going to be butthurt about a terrorist attack that didn't kill anyone I know.
I will have respect for the victims that died that day, because they themselves did not deserve to die, at least as a collective whole. I'm sure there were individuals among them who were not nice people, who screwed people over, who profited off of those with lesser means.
This is not to say that EVERYONE in the WTC and Pentagon were like that.
I have the utmost respect for the first responders both living and those who perished. My own father was turned away at the site of the WTC from assisting the first responders in rescue efforts. 20 minutes later, the first tower collapsed. I still have my father today. I am beyond grateful for that, and I would be beyond devastated had he died too that day.
Who knows how I'd feel if my father had died, or another loved one? There are families of victims that are staunchly anti-war, there are families of victims that think Islam is a blight on humanity. There are people in Arkansas with absolutely no connection to 9/11 in anyway other than residing in the same nation, albeit hundreds of miles away, who have an unfathomable anger towards Muslims and Muslim countries.
There is some truth to what Yewluze is saying, though I disagree with the notion that it was a false flag operation executed by the government against our own people (though that HAS happened before).
I think Osama bin Laden was a real person, he commanded and led al Qaida, he died at the hands of US Navy SEALS in a firefight, the details of the firefight are most likely going to be classified for a long time, if not forever. Who knows if every detail is 100% accurate?
We do supply other nations with weapons and aid. We do meddle in other countries affairs, perhaps far more than we should. I don't think that justifies the deaths of civilians in our country, but I also don't think terrorists give a shit who or what they target. They aim for maximum destruction, and they don't believe in or have any concept of collateral damage.
I think a good start to repairing our worldly image would be to get Uncle Sam's nose out of Israel's asshole, and stop supporting Israel so blatantly while still encouraging Israeli peace talks with Palestine. It WOULD be laughable, if the stakes weren't so high and the dangers so serious.
Israel has a right to exist, in my high school diploma bearing just-your-opinion,-man! opinion.
I do think they need not be so fucking greedy in how much land they have, and both sides need to cowboy up and stop being such fucking crybabies about who get's what durka durka statue or holy site on who's land.
The USA is entirely too interventionist in my eyes, and I don't think anyone deserved death on 9/11, but I do think the 9/11 attacks were a result and a retaliation for our interventionist policies and continued support of Israel.
I facepalm so hard it leaves a mark whenever some idiot says we were attacked because 'they just hate our freedoms'.
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