Sitting here in my stats class I read the headline "Germany: Plot Targeted US Facilities".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_eu/germany_terror
We live in a world where there are many people out there with open hatred towards America, but it's the ones who keep quiet of their hatred that we should be concerned about. We can no longer pin point one single group of people (ie: Afghans) because of the conversion of Germans, Britains, etc to these terror groups.
Why is it that there are people out there who hate America so much? Is it because of our freedom of choice, religion, and speech? Is it for our economy that has been better off than many others out there? Its not like this is the new thing, to hate America, how long has this sort of thing been going on?
The first terrorist attack upon America was in the 60's when a Puerto-Rican born man took control over a US plane. Within a one year period, 3 U.S. Ambassadors were killed, kidnapped, and attacked by knife in 1968-69.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm
How are we supposed to co-exist in a world where we are hated by many? We can't even agree amongst ourselves so how is a solution possible? We live in a world where we are oblivious to what goes on outside of our Country, but the threat is very real. The Chinese Military are attempting to hack into our Pentagon's system, and I'm sure they weren't interested in reading their emails.
We have been blessed to not have lived in fear growing up, and we have been even more blessed that no other major terrorist attack has been brought to our soil in several years. But what's to say how much longer we will have that luck.. I don't know about you but living in fear isn't something I look forward to. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that instead of arguing about what we can't fix, we should be looking at what to do about our future. Yes? No?
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I completely agree. It is not fair to stereotype and say a certain race or religion is responsible for everything. Im Palestinian, and Muslim, but that does not mean I'm a terrorist, nor does it mean I hate America.
We don't need to forget about what happened in the past, we need to learn from it. Because if the same horrible mistakes keep being repeated, whats going to be left in 10, 20, 100 years?
Thanks for your post! I'm glad someone understood what I was trying to say :)
I understand what you are saying, and I totally agree. Maybe we are raised to be oblivious to the outside world and to the importance of multicultural diversity? It isn't morally just or politically safe to stereotype so much. Not very productive either!