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Originally Posted by euronatura
I do not wish to offend, but the attack on 9/11, though many lives lost, was not cowardly. It had to have taken balls to do what the terroists did. I feel for all the peoiple, the family and friends. ... Rest in peace all the people killed and may closure and forgiveness come to the hearts of those directly affected.
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19 people (and those behind it) are cowards...taking a life (let alone, more) while knowing you are taking your own is the action of a coward...
It would have been more "brave" (and I'm using the term very loosely here) to do what the Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, did in Vietnam back in June of '63. All by himself...he brought a problem to the forefront of his nation, and the world, and within 6-7 months, the government fell...and his protest wasn't about the government itself, it was about the TREATMENT/PERSECUTION that the buddhists were receiving at the hands of the catholic-dominated authorities in that region. But he did it without physically harming anyone else...
If 19 arab-like individuals had burned themselves to death (or committed suicide and only "off'd" themselves and no one else), at the same time, in various locations throughout the US, there might have been a completely different outcome during these past 8 years...but we'll never know...will we?
Thich's action spoke on the level that said, "I'm not putting up with the injustice anymore...however, I'm not going to lower myself to their level and retaliate...I'm going to take a simple, albeit, grafic way out of this world. I'll die by my own hand and not by that of an oppressor."
9-11 is about remembering what was TAKEN by force from us, the people of the United States, that had nothing to do with the ME.
Those 3,000+ individuals that died that day weren't part of any Jihad or Crusade or anything of that nature.
And to say that any Jihadist is "ballsy" or "brave" to do what he did...is nothing more than condoning cowardness...that's all...nothing more.
