I agree, it's the most disturbing thing I've ever said. I've been in uniform, either full or part time for 20 years, I'm well educated and fully understand the political reasoning behind these acts. I was on active duty when the marine barracks in beruit was hit. I've had friends come back with purple hearts. As a matter of fact, I've had friends or associates in almost every major conflict in the last 20 years and gladly, I was spared all of them. In all of those years I've never been as angry at the "enemy" as I am today.
I worked on Wall Street for 4 years and for 4 years I took the path into the world trade center, walked through the mall at the bottom with all of my peers and walked the rest of the way to Wall St. In my view, it's the best part of New York. You should see it at Christmas, all lit up like something out of an old movie.
Everyone here knows someone who's missing or has family missing. The people who did this are not revolutionaries or freedom fighters, they are not trying to eject a foriegn invader from their land. They are simply hatefull and evil and their leaders know full well that any act of terror on our soil is not likely to change American foriegn policy, and is far more likely to harden our resolve as it's done to the societies of many other countries in the past, yet they did it anyway. This action reminds me of the way Hitler behaved, the decisions he made were generally of poor military value yet they were almost the best decisions possible if your goal was simply to increase human suffering to the fullest extent possible, and they were executed without regard for the people of his own nation. Bin Laden, or whatever terrorist organization that did this, had support from Afganistan in the form of training facilities and weapons as well as support from other countries. This after we gave assistance to the Taliban and Bin Laden ,I would imagine, in their fight to free their country from the Soviets. Afganistan and the Taliban supported this rabid dog with the full knowledge of what his intentions were. It's time that he and anyone/country that supported him reap what has been sown.
There were 50,000 people who work in those buildings and its my understanding that the people on the floors above where the aircraft struck could not get down because the stairwells were blocked/destroyed. That information is from the phone calls of workers to their families. Given that, we may be looking at something like 15000 dead as a conservative estimate. The mayor and federal officials have purposely not mentioned numbers because it's just so hard to accept and of course they dont want to aggravate what is already a population that is very near rage. Disturbing? You bet. But what's even more disturbing is that someday these animals will gain access to weapons of mass destruction unless we stop them and the countries that support them. Our military and intelligence communities have been warning us for decades about the proliferation of wmd and maybe this is what we need to get serious about it before we end up with a catastrophe of biblical proportions, although the sudden death of that many people would qualify. Given this reasoning, my original statement stands as written as far as I'm concerned.
CRASH
Originally posted by ispar:
*shudder*
Sorry, that's one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard anyone say...
