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Work to do on our vengeance issues?

Kevin Rollins’s blog Featured on the Free Liberal points us to a thread on Free Republic in which readers there took umbrage with Jonathan David Morris’s latest. Morris 's It's Time to Forget About September 11th was obviously an attempt to begin to heal from 9/11 rather than to be angry about it.

The vitriol at the Free Republic shows us a few things:

1) The word “liberal” is easily misunderstood by conservatives, who think it only means Ted Kennedy or Hillary Clinton. We at the Free Liberal don’t mean it that way, of course, we mean it in the more classical sense, i.e. maximum freedom, minimal government. It seems we have more educational work to do.

2) 9/11 still evokes a profound anger in many Americans. That’s, of course, understandable. The spectacular nature of 9/11 alone still sends chills up my spine, too. Still, the question is: What’s the healthy response? Do we soberly address and stop the perpetrators from repeating that sort of act? Or do we – in a fit of vengeance – attack nations we think might be peripherally involved in 9/11, wasting $400 billion and 2300 American lives along with many-times more from other nations? The US took the latter course, and, IMO, has made the situation far worse. We’ve compounded the tragedy with another.

I’m with Morris in this sense: Vengeance is never justified. Crazy people doing crazy things like 9/11 should absolutely be stopped. We should forget our pain and anger about 9/11 when considering the next steps to suppress the al Qaeda Network and Osama bin Laden. We should, in short, grow up.

-Robert Capozzi

Posted by Robert Capozzi on March 20, 2006 06:10 PM |

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