attemt at a balance viewpoint

[borat]

the innocent civilians who died on tuesday must be mourned for and remembered so that such an incident is never allowed to occur again. any actions neccesary to make this so shoould be undertaken.
i feel for the people who died as much as anyone and offer my condolences and sorrow for the victims of this attrocity.

however as well as punishing those responsible for the attack the usa and all developed countries must look at there foreign policies and understand that they do help to foster dislike towards them when they impose thier influence on other parts of the world.
although the usa, as well as myself , dispises terrorism they did help to fund and supply with weapons the IRA which imposes terror and death upon innocent civilians. there are many other countries guilty of such crimes and i am not pointing blame merely making people aware that the developing countries governments are not completely innocent.

those injured in tuesdays attacks were innocent and the villains responsible for this must be be brought to justice but we must also change our foreign policies in order to reduce the amount of bad feeling for our nations and allow peaceful co existance within the world.
after all regardless of nationality, religion or race we are all really fellow humans and should give each others mutual respect as such.
we must follow the saying that we treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves but when others violate our freedom they must be punished
i apologise for the comment which appears below every one of my postings as i feel it is innapropriate for this discussion but i do not know how to ommit it

[LAMFDTK]

You are either terribly uninformed or are the unfortunate result of too much indoctrination by college professors. Your statements are the exact same as saying that we should let all criminals out of jail since keeping them there just makes them mad; or saying that unless we just open our doors and let the world come and take what it wants out of us, that we are pissing them off and because of that, they are justified in their attacks.

You need to get this through your head: the only thing the U.S. could do that would satisfy the majority of the muslim world is to fire 150 50 megaton nuclear weapons at all major U.S. cities. It is our way of life they hate, the fact that we are all free and have the ability to annilate anyone we choose. Essentially, it is a criminal form of jealosy. Your totally stupid idea that it is our own underlying ideology that is the cause of this just blows my mind.



War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the
crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
--William Tecumseh Sherman--


Please visit a history book soon.

[cjolley]

borat,
Unfortunately Osama has now made it impossible for US policy to do anything but harden.
This was his goal. He is a tool of evil.
His betrayal of the Palestinians is complete.
chuck