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I am in no way condoning 9/11 or any other outrage committed by "them" against "us", but do we in our turn need to do things that are inhumane and will only fuel hatred for the Americans as a people by the international community?
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The best thing to do with terrorists is --
refuse to be terrorized.
Sure, tighten the obvious holes in national security, work with international partners to do the same... But heck, Osama's agenda is largely being carried out by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld these days. Who's pumping out toxic amounts of fear and hatred? Polarizing the world into Us and Them? Our leadership.
In the wake of Sept. 11th, the whole world stood with us. Today, 90% of it is understandably disgusted with us. How does that help?
When I became a citizen of "the Greatest Country in the World" this was not the standard of behavior I had expected.
- Pie