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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]

I think you are over -reacting Jeff, and if you were a journalist, I think you'd be called on the carpet for allowing personal attachments to seep into the way you try to steer/ control the message on this forum.[b] You should be able to hear that criticism.[/b]

I have only skimmed the thread, but if there is a single post on here that says ver batim , " the brothers are another example of the world wide  coordinated war by muslims" I have yet to see it on this thread.

Yes, people are angry, and people are sick of this, and have a right to be upset at seeing 8 year olds killed and 6 year olds with their legs blown off.

True, nearly 1 Million Iraqis are dead because of us, and their blood is equal to ours. It is true that out media dehumanizes Arabs , and muslims in general, and frankly I'd like to see us kick Israel to the curb, and take the side of justice once and for all over there.

But that does not make me less angry seeing American children with their legs blown off, and dead 8 year olds, killed by someone we took in , gave a scholarship to, made one of our own and, in the case of Katherine and her family, loved.

Its infuriating. And what they did is wrong.[/quote]

Thank you. The one thing I wanted was advice about what is or is not posted in this forum from someone who admits to only skimming it.  The fact that you, me, or any other reader is angry does not mean that events and motivations should not be properly understood. In fact, using anger instead of reason is exactly what leads to mistakes like the invasion of Iraq.

Do you think we are better off or worse off if we understand the true motivations of the brothers?

In the run up to the Iraq invasion I participated in a discussion forum and was one of the lone voices speaking against the invasion. On the day Colin Powell gave his presentation, a poster called me out saying, "any questions?"  I replied that I didn't have any questions, but that I expected almost every single fact that Powell had stated would eventually be shown to be false. I proved to be correct about that. However, at the time, the vast majority of people reacted to me the way you guys are. Yeah, I was really funny and my biases were making it difficult to think logically.

As I said in an earlier post, if Jim and Bob Smith decide the world sucks and they want to blow it up, they are two mentally disturbed kids. Unless they turn out to be Muslim, then they are international terrorists. If Adam Lanza had been Chechen, we would be referring to Sandy Hook as America's Breslan.  But, that's okay because people are angry.

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