Reply #57: what 'rubbish'- makes the Northern Alliance seem like the only really [View All]

[Bluerthanblue]

'noble' people in the film-

Such stereotyping, worse than a spaghetti western.....

To be quite honest, I really RESPECT the decision NOT to kill women, children, and innocents, if indeed the Clinton Administration chose not to act unless the risk was lessened. If only * had this kind of integrity. Because an 'enemy' chooses to do things that are what 'we' would consider reprehensible, it doesn't make it ok for us to compromise our beliefs and moral integrity with the claim 'yeah, but they did it first'-

How many civilian Afghani, and Iraqi victims blood is on our hands these five years after 9/11??

Thousands upon thousands, with no end in sight-

And we act like our losses are so grievous and un-forgettable.- Our victims may not make docudramas that seek to glorify those we have knowingly murdered calling them 'collateral damage'- or have million dollar victim funds- they may never even be counted or acknowledged by the world, but the lives of each person dead as a result of our response to 9/11 were every bit as precious to those who knew them as mother, son, child or parent- And those who died here on 9/11 are not vilified, honored, or redeemed by the further carnage which we have brought about-

This whole media blitz had got me so frickin depressed- Good people die daily, for no 'good' reason- we need to quit glorifying tragedy- we need to stop picking our scabs, and re-opening wounds
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what a screwed up nation we are