post 9/11, a nation in blinkers

Submitted by raheel khokhar (United Kingdom), Sep 13, 2006 at 14:56

howie,

you really are symptomatic of how the rest of the WORLD views americans: insular, absolutely obssessed with an apocalyptic winner-gets-all fight between Islam and Christianity. I am dismayed that 5 years after 9/11 people like yourself are still ignorant of how the world is run by governments and organisations with vested interests. Look at yourself first before you start calling other people and religions barbaric. You live in a country in which in MY lifetime (i am 42 yrs old) only just allowed blacks to walk on the same side of the street; indeed you are still murdering them now. I know what racism and segregation is whenever i visit the US.

You think you are free? Try living in Europe for a change and your eyes will open. Don't you understand the whole world watches you and is saddened and dismayed by your behaviour. GWB claims that his policies have made the US a safer place...true, there hasn't been a terrorist attack on the US since 9/11... but the rest of the world, because of GWB's policies is going to hell in a handcart. You mock a journalist for having the temerity to call Bin Laden a charismatic man, yet you fail to understand that it is probably his very charisma that attracts likeminded people to him. What, you think Hitler had no charisma? Or Mussolini, Caesar, Churchill...Oh, so you think it's bad that apparently 20% of Canadians believe that 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government? Well guess what, apparently a whopping 36% of US citizens believe the same thing...36%!!! That's more than a third of the population.

The question you should be asking is not whether what these people believe is true or false, but WHY do they think this way?

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