Ok, before i beguin, let me make some absolutelly necessary statements:
1- Nothing justify the slaughtering of civilians. The terrorists responsible are worse than regular criminals; they are WAR criminals and deserve the most harsh punishment possible;
2- I DON'T support terroism in ANY WAY. I believe in peaceful and reasonable solutions.
3- I am not american or afeghan and i don't have any relatives with the slightest relationship with any aspect of those cultures.
4- I'm extremely sympathetic to the victims of the crashing and their relatives, i sincerely hope that they find some way to rebuild their lifes and forget what happened.
I think that making it clear was absolutely necessary not only to avoid being crucified but also to make very clear that the goal of this message is to achieve people's opinions about what was the terrorist's motivation behind the crash.
Due to the excellent quality of the posts i've been reading, i think it's a fine place to have this discussion, and i'm opening it because i really imagined that i'd find it here already and became very surprised when i didn't.
Well, I know that we all have seen in the Media that the Al Quaeda did what they did because they are evil and evil and even more evil and because Bin Laden is the encarnation of the devil.
We also know that they say they are only defending themselves from the "Great Satan", as they put it.
Its a war (can it really be called a war? it's so diferent from anything we have called "war" vefore...) of the "good" against the "bad", each side claiming to be the "good".
But of course it's a very simple-minded approach. I mean, throwing an airplane in 2 civilian buildings (and a military too, i didn't forget the pentagon) out of the blue does show signes of insanity, but the Talibans didn't run into the bullets screaming for Alla after the USA started their military operation, and it shows that they have at least a minimum sense.
Also, it's true that USA keeps a strong presence in that area since the desert storm, and it is a provocation, yes, even if it's not what USA intend.
What i want to know is; just how much the USA military presence and USA external policy worked as triggers to what happened? And if it was a trigger in any sense, what would be a reasonable alternative to what the afeghans did? Let's try to measure just how oversized in the gap their actual act in comparison to what it should have been.
And of course there are also the economical reasons, the clash of cultures, etc...
I'm trying to think with insention, to forget my indignation with the lost of lives and see only the political and historical picture, that is, after all, the porpose of this forum.
please share your insights, fellows.
1- Nothing justify the slaughtering of civilians. The terrorists responsible are worse than regular criminals; they are WAR criminals and deserve the most harsh punishment possible;
2- I DON'T support terroism in ANY WAY. I believe in peaceful and reasonable solutions.
3- I am not american or afeghan and i don't have any relatives with the slightest relationship with any aspect of those cultures.
4- I'm extremely sympathetic to the victims of the crashing and their relatives, i sincerely hope that they find some way to rebuild their lifes and forget what happened.
I think that making it clear was absolutely necessary not only to avoid being crucified but also to make very clear that the goal of this message is to achieve people's opinions about what was the terrorist's motivation behind the crash.
Due to the excellent quality of the posts i've been reading, i think it's a fine place to have this discussion, and i'm opening it because i really imagined that i'd find it here already and became very surprised when i didn't.
Well, I know that we all have seen in the Media that the Al Quaeda did what they did because they are evil and evil and even more evil and because Bin Laden is the encarnation of the devil.
We also know that they say they are only defending themselves from the "Great Satan", as they put it.
Its a war (can it really be called a war? it's so diferent from anything we have called "war" vefore...) of the "good" against the "bad", each side claiming to be the "good".
But of course it's a very simple-minded approach. I mean, throwing an airplane in 2 civilian buildings (and a military too, i didn't forget the pentagon) out of the blue does show signes of insanity, but the Talibans didn't run into the bullets screaming for Alla after the USA started their military operation, and it shows that they have at least a minimum sense.
Also, it's true that USA keeps a strong presence in that area since the desert storm, and it is a provocation, yes, even if it's not what USA intend.
What i want to know is; just how much the USA military presence and USA external policy worked as triggers to what happened? And if it was a trigger in any sense, what would be a reasonable alternative to what the afeghans did? Let's try to measure just how oversized in the gap their actual act in comparison to what it should have been.
And of course there are also the economical reasons, the clash of cultures, etc...
I'm trying to think with insention, to forget my indignation with the lost of lives and see only the political and historical picture, that is, after all, the porpose of this forum.
please share your insights, fellows.
