'Americans have a right to grieve and remember those who died on 9/11. But they have no monopoly on memory, grief or anger. Hundreds and thousands of innocent Afghanis, Iraqis and Pakistanis have been murdered as a result of America's response to 9/11. If it's righteous vengeance they're after, Americans would not be first in line.

If "they" killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad then "they" also bombed a large number of wedding parties in Afghanistan, "they" murdered 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha and "they" gang-raped a 14-year-old before murdering her, her six-year-old sister and their parents near Mahmudiyah. If "they" don't want to be associated with the atrocities then "they" need to find more to celebrate than an assassination. Vengeance is, in no small part, what got us here. It won't get us out.'

Rather saddened of what I'm reminded of in light of all the news. The unintended, but certainly foreseeable consequences of 9/11.
Lesson of the week seems to be - if you bomb stuff up, shit happens to all kinds of people all over the world.
There's the dead of course.
Civil liberties of countries are stripped away
And people from God knows how many other countries it is now, would be killed in a war that is a consequence of the attacks.

I think the biggest impact of terrorist attack isn't the dead. It's what we do to ourselves afterwards.
Hallowed values spoken in terms of rights are discarded, as appalling miscarriages of justice occur. People morph into people who would cheer one's death, an unappealing sight.
And perhaps worse of all, all these are natural responses.
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'Americans have a right to grieve and remember those who died on 9/11. But they have no monopoly on memory, grief or anger. Hundreds and thousands of innocent Afghanis, Iraqis and Pakistanis have been murdered as a result of America's response to 9/11. If it's righteous vengeance they're after, Americans would not be first in line.

If "they" killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad then "they" also bombed a large number of wedding parties in Afghanistan, "they" murdered 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha and "they" gang-raped a 14-year-old before murdering her, her six-year-old sister and their parents near Mahmudiyah. If "they" don't want to be associated with the atrocities then "they" need to find more to celebrate than an assassination. Vengeance is, in no small part, what got us here. It won't get us out.'

Rather saddened of what I'm reminded of in light of all the news. The unintended, but certainly foreseeable consequences of 9/11.
Lesson of the week seems to be - if you bomb stuff up, shit happens to all kinds of people all over the world.
There's the dead of course.
Civil liberties of countries are stripped away
And people from God knows how many other countries it is now, would be killed in a war that is a consequence of the attacks.

I think the biggest impact of terrorist attack isn't the dead. It's what we do to ourselves afterwards.
Hallowed values spoken in terms of rights are discarded, as appalling miscarriages of justice occur. People morph into people who would cheer one's death, an unappealing sight.
And perhaps worse of all, all these are natural responses.
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