over election and politics. For Americans, the majority of us felt the same pain, anger and sadness over 9/11. Maybe with all of this fighting, we are letting the terrorist win by tearing our nation apart. Would you please take a look at this question and the answers and realize that we all pretty much feel the same way at heart?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsgdKYiXa_wbaHoou6wbuyXY7BR.?qid=20070805202553AA2Yc62
2007-08-05 16:59:22 · 15 answers · asked by ? 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I know about the whole cat-herding thing. I thought that it would be a good moment for everyone to cool off and stop hating each other and remember that we all basically feel the same way regardless of our political views.
2007-08-05 17:08:34 · update #1
I really didn't think that everyone was going to kiss and make up, but it would have been nice for everyone to put things back into perspective and realize that we are all in this together - like it or not.
2007-08-05 18:18:30 · update #2
TEA, that is exactly what I was thinking when I wrote the question. For all of our differences, we are all still Americans first, aren't we? Don't we all want our nation to be safe and continue to grow? We cannot let those 3000+ who died that day die in vain. We as a nation must come together to have any hope of surviving this horrible nightmare which continues to this very day. Thank you.
2007-08-05 17:18:17 · answer #1 · answered by Cinner 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Let the terrorists win? I admire your hope.
The terrorists have won.
Divide and conquer is not a unique concept. They have executed it with precision.
They were able to do it because they understand us better than we understand them.
I remember when the Tet offensive occurred in Viet Nam. The truth of the matter was that the north and the viet cong used up all of their assets on one massive campaign and they failed. They were finished, done. Even the Chinese and Russians were thinking of withdrawing support. Then Walter Cronkite took that victory and turned it into a failure saying that is should never have happened. He breathed new life into them. They then embarked on a propaganda war that the press was only too happy to accommodate. You know the rest.
AND: Here we are again. Only now with hundreds of media outlets full of Cronkite wannabes. They have made this conflict, look like the worst catastrophe in human history. They thrive on the division of American people and promote it every day.
Neither our military, nor our leadership can function in this insipid, hateful environment.
It's over.
We will never be the nation we were.
The Unity we enjoyed post 9-11 did not survive the next graduating class.
2007-08-05 17:28:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have not yet read the question or answers you linked to.. But given the other questions and answers I've seen and posted to tonight, I couldn't agree more.
I think we spend so much time pointing fingers, placing blame, making accusations, finding "facts" (which are often taken out of context) which seem to support our views, etc, that I think we leave almost no time or room to actually DO anything to change it. It seems "taking responsibility for ourselves" means to many "you take responsibility for this and that, so I can blame you."
It's like I said in another post with something about Katrina.. I've heard so many accusations, seen so much finger pointing, so much blame.. But so much of it all came from people who sat at home watching it all unfold on T.V.--and probably because there simply wasn't anything better on to watch--instead of turning the dang thing off and going down to find out what they could do to help.
I go through the same thing every year when I volunteer down at the homeless shelters for Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. I always get people who ask how can this be happening, why isn't anyone helping to solve the problem? I look at them calmly and remind them.. Someone IS helping, as best as I can. And someone else is spending so much time looking for someone to blame or some magical answer to it all, instead of rolling up their sleeves and diving right in.
My reply may upset a lot of people, even earned me a punch in the nose once, heh.. But I never really cared. I don't do what I do to win any popularity contest or make myself look good to them. I do it to actually accomplish something and help as much as I can.
And that is the problem with politics.. It's more of a popularity contest--You get voted in by being popular and looking good, not by being right or doing the right thing.
But we, as a people, DO have the power to change that. We CAN set aside our differences and shoot for reaching a common goal. We CAN tell our politicians that we WANT people in office who are more concerned with doing the right thing than simply looking good and making false promises--By voting for those who do just that, instead of voting one way or another on little more than blind ignorance.
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2016-10-09 07:34:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly -- the more we fight amongst ourselves, the weaker we become as a nation -- which is exactly what the terrorist want -- they want us afraid and weak and bickering with each other over who is right -- because as long as we are bickering, we're not finding solutions to the real problems.
2007-08-05 17:18:34 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Excellent Point
2007-08-05 17:02:51 · answer #6 · answered by jrd 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I respect your thoughts--but I have to disagree.
When a group--the right wing--declares that dissent is treason, that to question a war started on flase pretenses is unpatriotic--it is hard to find a common ground.
And when that same group calls for gutting the Constitution--for granting a president the powers of a dictator--and continue to support him when he has been proven not only incompetant but a liar--when that same group calls fro sanctions against law abidin citizens simply because they are Muslims. . . .
Such people do not share the values that are common to genuine Americans. I will not insult the memory of the people--including my own fater--who died to give us liberty by making a pretense that there can be any common ground with such trash. They are the real threat to our way of life and our freedom--not the terrorists.
2007-08-05 17:33:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
This makes for a pleasant interlude - but I really do think that the bashing each other will go on.
Even in response to this people like Jeff have to throw in one below the belt.
2007-08-05 17:07:08 · answer #8 · answered by Sageandscholar 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Whenever I see these conspiracy theorists protesting around Ground Zero,my heart breaks all over again, that they are giving the terrorists exactly what they want.
2007-08-05 17:07:11 · answer #9 · answered by bebe 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Maybe if we all focused on ways to save our children, we could find ways to agree.
Thanks for a kind question.
2007-08-05 17:45:40 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋