browneyedgirl wrote:Lurdi wrote:Such a shame how the Americans celebrated his death no matter who he was. It's nice how they are interested in these deals and know the names of those leaders but they don't even know where to place their countries
You did not lose a loved one on 9/11 did you?
I seem to recall that something happened in Europe in the years between 1940 and 1945...
Oh yeah, that's right... 60,000,000 people died. Still, the French, the Dutch, the Belgians or the Czech (to name a few) weren't sending terrorist groups over to Germany to wreak havoc on the "Krauts" after the War. The Jews arrested Eichmann, and they took him to court, but they did not celebrate the misery he (among others) engendered through retaliation. That's what one would call dignity, I guess...
And how about Yugoslavia in the 1990's? A grand total of 400,000 people were killed, but I guess that pales in comparison to 3,000 dead stock brokers and bankers in the World Trade Centre. A human life is a human life, so I mourn the death of these people as well. But get your facts straight: the blackest decade in human history was the 1940's, and the stage was Europe. Compared to that both Pearl Harbour and 911 were mere hiccups. Please get over that notion that Bin Laden was the Hub of Evil, or whatever. That's myopic. I hate to say it, but in the grand scheme of things, 911 wasn't all that bad...
I'm glad that spoilt rich playboy Osama bin Laden is dead (although I'd much rather have seen him taken to court). But let's now start learning from history by addressing the real issues and turning off the television set first. Boy, am I an optimist or what?
Cheerio,
Damien