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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. There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even� if they misuse it. 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. |
| 9.18.01 |