A Conversation for Talking Point: 11 September, 2001 - One Year On

I'm not taking sides

Post 1

M Fishie, keeper of the magic fingers (And the enormous eyes as well)

They're both in the wrong; The American government for thei ridiculous policies, and the terrorists for over-reacting in the way they did.

What do you think?


I'm not taking sides

Post 2

M Fishie, keeper of the magic fingers (And the enormous eyes as well)

And America overreacted too, for that matter.


I'm not taking sides

Post 3

Bodhisattva

It certainly did.

More innocent civilians were killed in Afghanistan by the US revenge attacks than in New York by the terrorists.


I'm not taking sides

Post 4

Scattergun


An eye for eye - you kill our innocents, we kill yours.

And the terrorists and governments whose stupidity, blind intolerance and evil create these situations, sit pretty.


I'm not taking sides

Post 5

Bodhisattva

While the emergency services personnel pick up the pieces. If only those dedicated and compassionate self-sacrificing individuals were the ones running the world.


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