You know, it seems like everyone thinks the USA should be perfect. We're the most powerful country in the world, and therefore we should be perfect. But unfortunately it seems as if other people don't realize this nation is comprised of people who are JUST as imperfect as they are. We are not perfect, nobody is. However, we don't blow up people because of their imperfections. The USA as a country is extremely understanding and sympathetic. The problem is because we are so understanding and sympathetic to other countries, we get verbally blasted and now physically blown up for the mistakes we make. Where is the due credit we deserve for the GOOD things we do? I think if you look at the positive things we have done versus the negative things we have done the positives far outweigh the negatives. (Examples: Helping countries in need when natural disasters occur.)
I do not think that we aided countries being invaded by Communist governments because we feared the "reds". The reason we did this was to fight Communism which typically is a form of government that defies human rights and more or less turns into an extremely corrupt dictatorship in which all commerce is restricted by the government. (This is not to say that the concept of Communism or Socialism is this way, but if you look at many of the actual examples of communist governments there are many examples of violations of human rights and corrupt leaders). Unfortunately, one country cannot fight for every single other country where there was a communist take over. Please remember we are not perfect! Neither are "you" though.
The terrorists who acted and supported this horrible tragedy are obviously very pessimistic. They see America as half empty, and all the negative acts which we have done. What they are blinding themselves to is the positives. We did in fact help Afganistan fight against an INVASION from the USSR. This is not an internal communist take over but a country forcibly taking over another country. I cannot understand how helping this country is a negative EXCEPT for the fact that it helped train Bin Laden which in turn may have caused the deaths of over 5000 innocent people (Not 5000 innocent Americans, 5000 human lives... Some of which were American, some were British, some were probably of Arab descent!) These terrorists also do not value human life. They don't value their own lives, they don't value other's lives, and they don't value the world as the incredible place that it is. Think about this world and all the technology and creations we as a people have made. And these terrorists would destroy all of it in a heartbeat if they could.
I don't think I can even begin to understand any reason for these bombings. I don't think we as a country have done anything so terrible to warrant such an attack on civilian lives. I understand that some people may not like America, but I think if they sat down and logically thought about the positive and negative things we have done as a country, they would see that the positives far outweigh the negatives. Obviously these terrorists are not thinking logically.
In any case, I don't know if anything that I wrote makes any sense ... What I do know is that I do not think this attack was warranted. I do not think America as a country has done anything so horrible that over 5000 innocent people deserved to die. I do think that there were many positive things that we have done for people around the world including people in the Middle East that we do not deserve this. I also believe that we must take action quickly to eradicate the terrorists who would take their own lives and countless others to get their point across. These people who would destroy all the wonderful things we as a people have created because they believe they will goto heaven. I do not think any of us wants to see the end of the world, (except maybe these terrorists). It is up to not only America, but the rest of the world to stop these people before they try to do just that.
Thats my 2 cents and I'm sorry if any of you don't agree with it, but freedom of speech is one of the many things the fathers of this country fought so hard to accomplish, and I'll be damned if a couple of terrorists are going to take away my freedoms and my life so they can get their point across.
