Posted by Pauline on September 29, 2001 at 11:11:59:
In Reply to: Re: The last totalitarians posted by Your Neighbor on September 29, 2001 at 09:31:09:
This is such a weird post....and misinformed. People all over the world can make ghastly choices. Let's see-- someone just opened fire on 14 innocent people in Switzerland. Teenage girls are sold into slavery in the unfree world including Islamic countries, unwillingly turned into prostitutes, slaves and exploited for sex, and snuff films are made in South America, including countries that are dictatorships. Anyone who says these things are exclusively or even mostly American or western is WRONG, and has some sort of "agenda".
I could understand protests against the US reaction to this if we had gone in and indiscriminately bombed Afghanistan. But we haven't!! Instead, we are spending millions of dollars to try to feed the people by dropping supplies. I hope the administration continues to be so SMART, and continues in its coalition building and trying to choke off the terrorists.
"I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me, And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today, 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God Bless the U.S.A."