Yes, somebody recently said something like, "If Osama doesn't like Bush, Bush must be doing something right!" Um, no, not really.
The thing is, I realize it's more complicated than just, "you pissed them off so they're just getting back at you," because part of what drives me crazy when I force myself to read articles where people talk to people who support terrorists is that they have the same useless victim mentality that I don't like in the US. But people sort of act like you can't have it one way or the other: either the terrorists are attacking us unfairly and we're completely blameless, or we did something that completely justifies running two plains into the World Trade Center. Either way you don't look at what's really going on in a way where you can make things better.
But when you actually get off on showing the world you don't care about them, how are you not exacerbating the problem? Or when you take the UN not backing the war in Iraq and twist it into the UN trying to stop the US from defending itself? How is anybody supposed to compromise with that sort of attitude?
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Date: 2004-11-06 07:37 am (UTC)The thing is, I realize it's more complicated than just, "you pissed them off so they're just getting back at you," because part of what drives me crazy when I force myself to read articles where people talk to people who support terrorists is that they have the same useless victim mentality that I don't like in the US. But people sort of act like you can't have it one way or the other: either the terrorists are attacking us unfairly and we're completely blameless, or we did something that completely justifies running two plains into the World Trade Center. Either way you don't look at what's really going on in a way where you can make things better.
But when you actually get off on showing the world you don't care about them, how are you not exacerbating the problem? Or when you take the UN not backing the war in Iraq and twist it into the UN trying to stop the US from defending itself? How is anybody supposed to compromise with that sort of attitude?