It's September 11, 2002, and I guess like so many Americans today, I've been thinking about the attacks of last year. I've always thought people were basically the same no matter where they came from or what their background, color or religion. That everyone wanted the same things from life, a way to feed and care for their families, hope for the future and maybe a little happiness along the way. You know the basics. Chinese farmers, Arab businessmen, ranchers in Montana, or a Norwegian fisherman, the basics would be same. Find someone to love, a way of making a living and raise their children. If you liked your life and work it made it even better. Maybe a little comfort in your old age would be nice too. Of course there are no guarantees and the idea of "making a living" might be different for some people than mine, but the basics where the same. On September 11, 2001, I found out that I had been wrong. I had begun to suspect my views where wrong when I had seen the terrorists in Israel blowing themselves up and the parents of Palestinian teenagers saying how proud and happy they were that their sons and daughters had just blown themselves to pieces and had taken innocent men, women and children with them. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with killing. I keep a gun in the stand by my bed and God help the person that breaks into my house and tries to hurt anyone in my family. But what kind of person gives birth to an innocent baby and as soon as they can walk, puts a gun in that child's hand and teaches them to kill someone because they live in another country or are of a different religion? What type of person wants their child to be torn to pieces by a bomb loaded with nails much less, fly a plane into a building and kill as many people as possible in one of the most horrible ways possible? I don't think I will ever understand the mind of such a person.
Isn't survival a basic instinct? Isn't loving your children a basic instinct? Have the laws of nature changed? Have these people lost all their common sense as well as reason? Over the last year people have tried to find reasons for what happened on 9/11/01. I have heard some say we needed to change our policies or our views and that it would happen again if we didn't change our way of treating the rest of the world. What happened on September 11, 2001 had nothing to do with war, or power, or wealth or the way "I" looked at the rest of the world; it was pure hate. And it was a hate with no reason. At least no reason that makes any sense. If I had been in one of those towers last year or on one of those planes, I would have died because someone hated me. Someone who didn't even know me and had never met me. Someone who knew nothing about me or the way I have lived my life. They wouldn't have cared if I was black, white or green; whether I was an American, Australian or from Tibet. They wouldn't have known if I had ever hurt anyone or not. None of that mattered. I would have been just a life and had to be killed. Now tell me, where is the reason, sanity or justice in that. What type of person does such a thing? And does it in the name of "God"!
I don't believe the way I look at the rest of the world has anything to do with what happened. There is absolutely no way I will ever understand the mind of someone who could do this. So I have decided not to care why they did it anymore than I would care why a stranger is breaking into my house in the middle of the night. It just doesn't matter. They are defective in their thinking and should be dealt with the same way I would deal with an intruder in my house that threatened my family. I would give them no more thought than that.
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