Message #17742

[spitfire78]

"Freedom fighters" are one thing.  If in fact you feel repressed, it is your right to fight for your freedom.  However, I do not feel it is your right to take innocent lives to do it.  I realize that in "war" there are always civilian casualties.  If they bombed military installations and civilians were accidentally involved, that is one thing. I feel it is completely different for them to set off car bombs on public streets or near public buildings where the ONLY lives lost or injuried are civilian lives.  I am very sorry for the members of your family who were killed or wounded.  Fortunately, I did not know anyone personally who was involved in the 9/11 incident, so I can only imagine how that must feel.

Again, so much has changed in my outlook since 9/11 - and I am happy to say is still changing as I listen and learn more each day.  Prior to 9/11 I would not have thought twice about the speech you just wrote about.  Looking at it now, I feel the same horror as you.