horrifying act in NYC

[drainer@mpinet.net]

    So my sister, who just graduated from university, got a job, and is
starting out her life has to suffer?
   (and who is not guilty of this "crass behavior")








----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Larson" <bulb at netway.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: RE: horrifying act in NYC


> Sure, this is tragic. Yes, I sympathize. But you can't forget that the
> United States is in some way resposible for what happened. The U.S. has
been
> throwing it's weight around the world and finally someone has decided that
> they have had enough. Whether they or right not is another matter but the
> United States has to change the way it treats the rest of the world. It
has
> to view itself as a part of a global community and stop using the rest of
> the world as a tool for it's own profit.
>
> Each one of us here in the U.S. is in some way resposible for what has
> happened. Every time I ride my bike down the street and am almost hit by
an
> SUV making a quarter mile commute to work I am reminded at the crass
> behaviour of Americans and the indifference they have for the concerns of
> the rest of the world and the environment.
>
> Most Americans will probably NEVER think in those terms or ever think that
> what their country does is patently WRONG.
>
> I think that it is totally logical to think that someone would be angered
> over the actions of the U.S. even to to the point of mass destruction.
>