nova_satori

Very few people in America understand why 9/11 happened. Do you understand the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorists? (hint, NOT MUCH) America screwed up, that is why her soldiers are dying needlessly. "They miss the point, we really don't care how significant the World believes our loss to be, what is critical is how important it is to us!" And that is another reasons Americans are arrogant. Shall we simply ignore 50,000+ dead in Kashmir? Or how about thousands starving to death every day? Or the comming hand of Death in Africa? 2,900 is a very insignifigently loss. Patriotism is loving your country first. Nationalism is loving your country second, and hating every other country first. Patrotism is also wishing the best for your country and seeing to that. This path America is on, is the path to oblivion. I hardly call supporting that being a patriot. "well yes, if your understanding of "Cowboy" means someone willing to risk it all for what he believes to be right, willing to stand against any odds to uphold his vision of what is America and what it means to the World. And does anyone question that a "Cowboy" is a patriot? " What if that cowboy sends the world to oblivion because of lack of understanding of the consequences?

That's how the modern currency system of every country works. People believe that their money has value, that is what give it most of its worth in a domestic context. Money, paper money that is, has no real value at all. Any economist can tell you that. Even coins are only worth the metals in them. Eletronic storage of money, that money has no worth at all. It is what people believe that gives money its worth. However, the US still has the largest economy in the world.

[disclamier] When I refer to Americans, I mean ignorant, average, arrogant Americans, obviously, not every American fits that description, just the majority [/disclamier] Do any Americans (besides me of course) understand that killing "terrorists" is the path to genocide? If you constantly kill every terrorist, two will arise in his/her place. America will piss off so many people (as if there are any more left to piss off) that eventually there will be a united front aganist her. You CANNOT win this war with guns. You cannot win this war with bombs. Violence will only produce more violence. An Eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind. Do you want your kids to grow up in a constant state of fear? How America will change this world is by installing Bono as its president. I'm not joking. Massive economic, medical and infrastuture aid will be the only way to change their hearts and minds. You you want people growing up being told that America must be destroyed at all cost? I don't. Americans are so quick to jump on the "shoot first, shoot second" train. Drug war? That's a joke. That disaster has ruined Colombia, cost thousands of lives, and is further back then it was 10 years ago. You CANNOT win the war aganist supply. You must win the war aganist Demand. Once the demand is gone, supply will quickly dry up. Get rid of the supply, prices will skyrocket, and more people will get into the supply business. It is a cycle that will never be broken. Demand must die, supply will then take care of itself. Whether you want to hear this or not, America is partially at fault for 9/11. America has done enough atrocities it is no wonder someone finally commited it. Whether it is right or wrong is irrevelent. It happened, and America is by no way not responsible. People seem to think that a country that has trampled over and destroyed countless cultures, shoved its culture down others' throats, used their land to launch strikes that destabilize their regions, exploit resources with no care for the environment, commit sacraligious acts...the list goes on and on. There is no exuse. No average American, not even a brilliant American can refute that America did not deserve part, if not all of 9/11. All they can do is either accept it, or throw massive amounts of vulgar, obsence insults at you. I've personnally been called a terrorist for understanding why 9/11 happened. That's the average American for you. I fully agree with Black Dog that I am appalled that such a country with such promise could do such horrible acts. Americans have failed to learn the brutal and harsh lessons of 9/11. History has a tendency to reteach lessons with far more suffering and pain then the first teaching. Sadly, I fear this next lesson will also be ignored. I personnally think that if it takes a hundred thousand innocent people to die on American soil to awaken the ethnics, morality, and virtue of America that have been smothered, the price must be instantly paid. Only a true enemy would not want that. patriots want their country to prosper, they want to see it reach its glory. This path we are on is the one to oblivion.