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I was sent this last week sometime. It suprised me to say the least.
Article from London's Daily Mirror
>
Surprise! Surprise! When one of the world's most liberal left
wing newspapers writes a great article like this, there is hope for everyone.
A thoughtfully written piece in one of the most left wing newspapers in the
UK. Just a word of background for those of you who aren't familiar with the
UK's Daily Mirror. This is one of the most notorious Left wing,
anti-American dailies in the UK. Hard to believe that the Daily Mirror
actually published it, but it did.
>
Begin article:
ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's Mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing -- nobody deserves this fate.
Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the
perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
increasingly seen as America's comeuppance [deserved reprimand or
punishment]. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last year.
There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country --
too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than
Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to me.
More than that, it turns my stomach. America is this country's greatest
friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the US by culture, language
and blood.
>
A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died for
our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we so soon? And exactly a year ago,
thousands of ordinary men, women and children -- not just Americans, but
from dozens of -- were butchered by a small group of religious fanatics. Are
we so quick to betray them? What touched the heart about those who died in
the twin towers and on the planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers
and mothers, somebody's son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And
children. Some unborn. And these people brought it on themselves? And their
nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter? These days you
don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or Karachi
or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The anti-American
alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the Americans for
every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering from power-envy,
bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it likes without having
to ask permission.
>
The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
September 11. Remember, remember! Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of
weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were
burned alive. Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of
burning skyscrapers. Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember
the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of
the planes with her mum. Remember, remember -- and realize that America has
never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. So, a few
al-Qaeda tourists got locked up without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the
Kleenex. So, some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they
merrily fired their semiautomatics in a sky full of American planes? A
shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti. AMERICA could have
turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a
sign of strength. American voices are already being raised against attacking
>
Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will
have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many
Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was
an abomination? When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank,
those freedom-loving Palestinians were dancing in the street. America
watched all of that -- and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars
that America is the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it
incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism."
A real war.
>
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell" if
America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like
you wouldn't believe. The US is the most militarily powerful nation that
ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been
less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.
But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched
countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the
Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand -- assuming you
haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting. I love America, yet
America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle. But I would rather be
a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh.
>
Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be --
rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or
religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever
had and we should start remembering that. Or do you really think the USA is
the root of all evil? Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who
leaped to their death from the burning towers. Tell it to the nursing
mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked planes, or
were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper. And tell it to the hundreds of
young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire Department. To our
shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein. Once we were told
that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set up rape-camps
in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save me the
orange center, oh mighty one! Remember, remember, September 11. One of the
greatest atrocities in human history was committed against
America. No, do more than remember.
>
Never,never forget!
Article from London's Daily Mirror
>
Surprise! Surprise! When one of the world's most liberal left
wing newspapers writes a great article like this, there is hope for everyone.
A thoughtfully written piece in one of the most left wing newspapers in the
UK. Just a word of background for those of you who aren't familiar with the
UK's Daily Mirror. This is one of the most notorious Left wing,
anti-American dailies in the UK. Hard to believe that the Daily Mirror
actually published it, but it did.
>
Begin article:
ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's Mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing -- nobody deserves this fate.
Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the
perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
increasingly seen as America's comeuppance [deserved reprimand or
punishment]. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last year.
There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country --
too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than
Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to me.
More than that, it turns my stomach. America is this country's greatest
friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the US by culture, language
and blood.
>
A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died for
our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we so soon? And exactly a year ago,
thousands of ordinary men, women and children -- not just Americans, but
from dozens of -- were butchered by a small group of religious fanatics. Are
we so quick to betray them? What touched the heart about those who died in
the twin towers and on the planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers
and mothers, somebody's son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And
children. Some unborn. And these people brought it on themselves? And their
nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter? These days you
don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or Karachi
or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The anti-American
alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the Americans for
every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering from power-envy,
bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it likes without having
to ask permission.
>
The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
September 11. Remember, remember! Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of
weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were
burned alive. Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of
burning skyscrapers. Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember
the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of
the planes with her mum. Remember, remember -- and realize that America has
never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. So, a few
al-Qaeda tourists got locked up without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the
Kleenex. So, some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they
merrily fired their semiautomatics in a sky full of American planes? A
shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti. AMERICA could have
turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a
sign of strength. American voices are already being raised against attacking
>
Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will
have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many
Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was
an abomination? When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank,
those freedom-loving Palestinians were dancing in the street. America
watched all of that -- and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars
that America is the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it
incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism."
A real war.
>
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell" if
America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like
you wouldn't believe. The US is the most militarily powerful nation that
ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been
less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.
But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched
countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the
Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand -- assuming you
haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting. I love America, yet
America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle. But I would rather be
a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh.
>
Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be --
rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or
religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever
had and we should start remembering that. Or do you really think the USA is
the root of all evil? Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who
leaped to their death from the burning towers. Tell it to the nursing
mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked planes, or
were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper. And tell it to the hundreds of
young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire Department. To our
shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein. Once we were told
that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set up rape-camps
in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save me the
orange center, oh mighty one! Remember, remember, September 11. One of the
greatest atrocities in human history was committed against
America. No, do more than remember.
>
Never,never forget!
