Are we telling the world it's ok to bomb us?

Question

terrorize us. We will make make a small fuss for a little while, but then we'll go home with our tail between our legs and apologize to the terrorists because we must have offended them in some way? What will be our fate if we do that?

Answer 1

I'm confused how what we have done in response to the events in New York 6 years ago is in any way giving the message that we are ok with being attacked. I'll give you an analogy...

A bunch of kids are on a playground. Around 200 or so of them, of all different races and ages and physical sizes. A small boy, the class outsider ( a nutty little kid, the kind that spends alot of time in the basement melting plastic army men) throws a rock at the most popular kid in class. Now the popular kid is smart, huge for his age, rich, and strong. A future football player.

Well when Mr Popular gets winged in the head by a rock, he is understandably hurt, and perhaps not using his best judgment but who can blame him. So he wheels around and beats the living tar out of the unpopular rock thrower. Just smashes him into the ground. The rest of the kids in class gather around to watch, they saw the rock that was thrown, and understand the backlash.

Now, with the small unpopular kid laying bleeding on the ground, our popular hero turns and sees another student, a new exchange student from the middle east. Our popular friend notices that the exchange students pockets are filled. From across the playground it looks like he has pockets full of rocks!

So the popular kid yells "Hey! A**face! Give me those rocks!"

The exchange student says "I don't have any rocks, the only rock I had was the one you gave me yesterday. What that other kid did to you was wrong."

So the popular kid, still seeing the pockets that are full of something starts charging across the playground yelling "show me the rocks, show me the rocks!"

All of the other kids are worried, and try to stop the popular kid. They say "wait, lets see if he has any rocks, lets let him show us. Lets look in his pockets!"

But the popular kid says, "Listen, either you guys are my friends or you are not! If you are friends with this kid, then you're next!"

So he jumps upon the Arabic exchange student and starts beating him up too. Ripping apart his pockets, looking for rocks. And he keeps beating him up, and keeps beating him up. When after several hours of this, the other kids are starting to think maybe this popular kid isn't so great, and the popular kid himself is getting kinda tired of beating this other kid up, he wonders "should I get off of this exchange student? Should I just walk away?"




And that's where we are today. I don't think that getting up off of the kid would be saying that it was ok that the first student threw a rock. We wouldn't be going home with our "tails between our legs". And not everyone in the world is a terrorist. It was just that one crazy kid who no one liked. But now, because of the response we have chosen, alot of the other kids are going to be very uneasy around us, and the little exchange student is going to be really pissed off. So our fate is that we are going to have to deal with some very angry people from Iraq in one way or another, hopefully through peaceful means.

Answer 2

Terrorized you? Ah you mean 9/11? Wasn’t that your own government?
You guys kill 10 times more Iraqis each WEEK, than Saddam did in 30 YEARS

Answer 3

You are right, that is exactly what some people think because we have not gone after bin Laden, we have wasted our time with the talliban and Saddam.

Answer 4

i'm sorry i was not aware that it was saddam and his country that were responsible for the WTC bombing. i thought it was bin laden. besides. don't you listen to george. he says it's no longer a war on terror, we're trying to free the people. or has it changed again?

Answer 5

sorry i don't understand what the answer is to this post- if there is an answer