Psi, after looking at the more in-depth comments of the other posts i find comments such as these:
In a way I understand why they do it.
America practicaly invades with no real reason and kills civilians, so what did America expect to get in return?
exceptionally hard to swallow. You may think that this sort of thing is the epitome of truthfulness and direct speaking, but it just comes across as terribly insensitive and thoughtless.
I'm not saying there isn't any truth in what you're saying, retaliation and resistance is to be expected when a presence so large as America makes itself felt in such a wildly different culture as in the Middle East, but the events of 9/11 are by no means 'deserved' as a result of what sections of the United States are responsible for. I don't think I need to remind anyone, as others have posted this exact information before, that those who died were non-combatants, regular people, as well as the emergency services that effectively gave their lives to save them. You may well equate this form of response as more than adequate repayment for recent incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan, but as Ronin has said it is unforgivable, unforgettable and as a result deserves more remembrance and caution than most historical events, and as a result, more awareness when it comes to talking about it.
If I were to take your earlier post and apply it out of context, say, in terms of Nazism and the Holocaust:
Meh, what's done is done no? Forgive and forget?
What effect do you think that would have? To forget the past is to run the risk of making the same mistake again, simply at a later date once the echoes have dispersed. Using the example of the Holocaust once again, that also is an unforgivable event - the deaths of literally millions of people, destroyed by a fascist regime. In fact, whilst banning the images and symbols of Nazism, Germans are actively taught about the 1939-1945 period, just for the reason of prevention, raising knowledge of how it could happen once more.
In base terms, what i'm trying to say is that these events deserve greater recognition than you allow. One can not simply 'forget' or 'blank out' darker aspects of human nature, they
need to be remembered, they
need to be marked, nay, etched into our minds. A cavalier attitude towards monumental events is not the way to approach them, you have to take them into consideration and use them as focal points to build a better future, or perhaps even to allow us to survive long enough to even
have a future.
