Open Letter to the terrorists

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Someone just sent me this. It came without signature. I send it on as such.

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 sure try!)

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany: "If you can not 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 say one. 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 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, they 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. 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, just the most recent.

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. 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.......

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.

Anonymous

Little Bit Farm

-- Little bit farm (littleBit@compworldnet.com), September 13, 2001

Answers

Very Good!! Thanks for posting that Little Bit

-- Terry - NW Ohio (aunt_tm@hotmail.com), September 13, 2001.

Pretty cool post. I might have to 'borrow' it sometime in the future.

-- Uriah (Uriahdeath2@netscape.net), September 13, 2001.

I liked that.

Being curious as to why the Arab(Muslims) have such violent tendencies considering the Koran contains much of the Bible as we know it, I researched the Abram/Hagar affair; here is what I found:

Genesis 16: 8-12 (Hagar is Ishmael's mother who Sarai (no Sarah yet) just kicked out because Hagar got arrogant and snippy when she got pregnant with Abram's (not Abraham yet) son.)

"The Angel: ' Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?' Hagar: 'I am running a way from my mistress.' The Angel: 'Return to your mistress and act as you should, for I will make you into a great nation. Yes, you are pregnant and your baby will be a son, and you are to name him Ishmael (God hears), because God has heard your woes. This son of yours will be a wild one-free and untamed as a wild ass! He will be against everyone, and everyone will feel the same towards him. But he will live near the rest of his kin.' " The Living Bible (paraphrased)

I cross referenced this in the KJV and it states the same! Verse 12 which is the heart of what we're talking about in the KJV says it like this: Genesis 16:12- " 'And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.' "

I assume we all realize where the Arab race originated, Hagar/Abram, and I thought this was quite prophetic.

-- JimR (jroberts1@cas.org), September 17, 2001.


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