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An open letter to a terrorist:
Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America.
You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America.
You used helpless American bodies, to take out other American bodies, but
like a poor marksman, you STILL missed America.
Why? Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building or two,
not about financial centers, not about military centers, America isn't about a place, America
isn't even about a bunch of bodies.
America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where you can earn as much
as you can figure out how to, live for the most part, like you envisioned living, and pursue
Happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can surely try!)
Go ahead and whine you terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany:
"If you cannot see my point, then feel my pain." This concept is alien to Americans.
We live in a country where we don't have to see your point, but you're free to have one.
We don't have to listen to your speech, but you're free to give one. I don't know where you got the
strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with each
other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that don't agree,
called States. We united our individual states to protect ourselves from tyranny in the world.
Another idea, we made up on the spot. You see, you CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country. If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an unfortunate image to project
to the world, but it comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too, because
people start to forget that when you attack Americans, we tend to fight
like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when England burned
Washington D.C. to the ground. It didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and it's not
going to turn out like you think, either.
Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, nor the biggest, nor the baddest, just the most recent and the most cowardly thus far. It takes a REAL man to murder unsuspecting and unarmed innocents at their desks.
Such bravery it must take, to take the life of someone sitting in an office
building, whose furthest thought is hostilities against you. I think you have
failed to realize, that by killing so many innocent people, the message you may
have intended to send, is lost, replaced by the rage of not only a nation, but
by a world, united in a way, we have not seen before. I suppose I must thank
you for that part of it, yet make no mistake, the nations of the world, will
seek retribution and will not stand still for this type of murder.
No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST and so far,
only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger. Horrific idea, nowadays?
News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two of them
in the whole world and we used 'em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project. He told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you something about American Resolve?
So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some real estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did, IIRC. Better start sleeping with one eye open.
There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom, even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was.
First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons.
You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America, America lives in US!
American Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.
Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.
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