RE:

• By Casey

• It is a tragedy what happend tuesday morning in new york. The situation
  goes to show the intolerance the worlds still suffers today when it comes
  to religious fanaticism and political ideas.
  Also, it shows the complacency we Americans have when it comes to our own
  comfort, that it could never be attacked in a scale such as this. It goes
  to show that a situation such as this one can happen anywhere in the world.
  And in all actuallity, it was a strike against the world, not just America.
  I am an American living in Germany. A friend of mine called me up
  tuesday afternoon while I was at work to tell me what was going on. I was
  terrified. I wanted nothing more than to be at home with my family during
  this. I called my stepmother and sister the other day and what they had to
  tell me was even more terrifying than the incident in new york. They told
  me of incidents where Arab Americans were getting attacked on the streets.
  Only because it was Arabics who committed these acts of terrorism. Anyone
  could be a potential terrorist. They live across the street from you, they
  live next door to me. They are white, brown, they have beards or they could
  be our friends. We never know who they are. Where American flags wave
  everywhere. Wanting of blood and war. I read a letter printed in the bee
  which said that the groups responsible for this might be too small for
  sufficient revenge. Americans I know here in Germany are screaming for
  blood as well. If we go to war and invade some other country because of
  their beliefs it would be no different than genocide. Is America just as
  desperate to seek revenge that we degress into mid-evil thinking, that
  blood for blood, an eye for an eye is the answer? To go senselessly
  attacking innocent people because of their colour? Is this the solution? I
  hear George Bush promising war, I see American flags waving everywhere, I
  read the e-mails sent to me and I realise that this is nothing but
  propaganda for war. The nation is thirsty for revenge. It scares me.
  It is important to find out who did this. We know that Bin Laden is
  somehow behind it. Like a father who guides his children, surely he guided
  the smaller terrorrist cells with financial support and advice. Bin Laden
  is, in a matter of speaking, a mastermind, a supporter. Instead of acting
  out our first instinct and going into a country where we hardly understand
  the people's culture and beliefs, we need to look at the situation
  carefully and deal with it according to human rights. To capture him with
  intelligence instead of open war. Violence against violence is not the
  answer! Terrorism will never be eradicated. If we go into some other
  country with intention to start war, it will only confirm their animosity
  towards Americans. So would the answer be to kill them all?
  Just remember that America helped bring Bin Laden into the power that he
  holds today when it supplied him with weapons and money to chase the
  Russians out of Afghanistan.That America schooled these terrorists. So did
  other countries around the world.
  It is important to consider what we are thinking, writing and saying. To
  remember the past before we do things that can end the future.