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Originally Posted by brian1975
Like any country in the world, its gonna have some assholes, and its gonna have some awesome people.
Only thing that ever bothered me was after 911, it seemed like no american was asked WHY did the terrorist attack us, just how can we attack them back. Sometimes you have to look inward for resolve (for the war on terror) and not just be the aggressor. I think that has happened now, but when 911 was around all the americans in my office were jumping for nukes sorta speak.
edit- americans are great people, i think some people have views on america based just on the media (can be said about some canadians as well) that can create stereotypes that are not accurate. Anything to sell tv and print.
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Not to ruffle any feathers here, but I don't think that why we were attacked mattered in the days and months after 9/11. At that point what mattered was who was responsible, and where were they? Did we have a right to rataliate? You bet. The who and why questions were plastered all over the TV and newspapers for months.. 9/11 rocked most Americans to the core... I can remember watching it unfold on TV at work, and even convicts were moved to tears...many of them wishing they could get out and enlist in the military to help. All day long, except for mass movement, such as feeding times, you coudl walk down any cellblock or into any dorm and here a pin drop almost - the only sounds being the TV and a few convicts talking. I am no softie really, but hearing some of the comments I heard really moved me.
The need to know why it happened was second to who and how then, and even now. Obviously we would like to think we can prevent another occurance, and we might be able to. Overall we have doen a good job in tightening security, and we have a long ways to go.
I just think that had this happened in any other country, canada or elsewhere, the reaction would have been similar.