A moment of silence please

[Ian W.]

i've been thinking, and i'm starting to get kind of sick of the whole patriotism thing. sure, it was great for a time. then, all the flags on cars wound up on highways (on the side of the highway, like trash, not on the cars), people stopped caring, and then today, they're patriotic, but tomorrow they're normal again. it just annoys me.

second, if you want to have a very broad definition of terrorism, 9/11 was nothing. i consider what happened during WWII (or, the Holucaust), to be a terrorist act. hitler's only reason to kill, to get rid of the jews. the reason behind 9/11? to get rid of the americans. now lets see, almost 3,000, or 11 million (6 million of who were jews). i feel that in the scheme of things, 9/11 was much overblown, and should not have been. sure, the holucaust was a 'war', but bush made 9/11 into a 'war' too.

also, one must think about all the people killed in israel over the years. guess what, i bet it's pretty close, if not higher than 3000. also, they live in the constant fear of being blown up, where as 9/11 was a seemingly isolated event. consider all the other terrorism throughout the world, i bet 9/11 was much smaller compared to everythign else. the only reason it's "so big"? it happened in america, and since it was the first (Well, second if you count the oklahoma bombing), it was blown way out of proportion.

i'm sorry if this annoys anyone, but one really must consider all points of view. please, dont' flame me, but i am willing to have an intelligent debate with anyone who wants too.