I didn’t come to classes today and I knew that we were supposed to talk about 9/11 tragedy. I wrote some information that I found in the internet about this day. I want to be honest with myself so I’m going to look at everything from two sides.
Let me start from the hardest part. First question that I wrote in Google was: “why did it happen?”. I’ll never tell the victims that they are the one to blame. Civilians aren’t guilty for behavior of the military. But (that “but” that ruins good sides of the sentences, am I right?) for some reason they were violently punished.
It always hard to believe, but some people think that they have excuses for crimes. Leader of the international Islamic terrorist organization, Osama bin Laden, said: “Terrorism against America is commendable because it is a response to injustice aimed at forcing America to stop supporting Israel, which is killing our people.”
Former CIA chief Michael Scheyer tried to explain what it means: “Politicians are very mistaken. We were attacked because of what we did in the Islamic world, and not because of what we believe in, or because of how we live.” At some point, it was an armed struggle against Jews and Crusadres in order to spread Islam and in some point it was a revenge. Well, like Gandhi said: “An eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind”, you know what I mean?
Violence can’t be defeated by violence. Ongoing military conflicts doesn’t help people to be safe. America answered with attack on Afghanistan and continued the war. More people died because of political games.
It’s all an old story but no one wants to learn. My point is to explain that we don’t really hate other nations and countries. When it’s a war somewhere on our planet, some people tell as how to feel about it but they have their own interests. The first step to stop wars is to stop hating and start listening, understanding and helping other people and nations.
I’ll end on this because I feel like it’s already too much and I don’t want to get in trouble because of my views.
