Violence breeds violence. Enter this vicious circle at your own peril. What would happen if other terrorists choose to crash a plane into a nucear reactor near you? Are you and your friends immune to biological weapons? What would you do if you turned out to be the only immune humans?
Retaliation is not the way. The terrorists think of their act as retaliation. You think of it as retaliation. How will they think of your retaliation?
Nobody, nothing forces you to retaliate. You have a choice. Take it. Think. Try, if you can, try to imagine how you would feel if those US cruise missiles killed your friends, your parents, your children. That is why for every person killed in retaliation, a new terrorist will be created. Even if you could kill every terrorist "known, suspected, or rumoured", more, even more determined terrorists would take their places.
And you would even be doing some types of terrorist a favour, as to die in their holy war secures them a place in their heavens. The drug dealers may not have believed in a heaven and were certainly afraid, but you cannot scare someone longing to go to heaven. You can only hand him a ticket to heaven.
Do not, by retaliating, give the terrorists late justification for what they did. They are convinced that the US is evil and that they are right. Do not bear them out.
Do not give the terrorists what they crave most: Attention. Give your attention to the victims and their families. Give your attention to those who suffer. Give your attention to those who these misguided terrorists believe to represent and fight for.
Eliminate the reasons for terrorism. Do not attack the symptoms, cure the causes. Do not give other people reasons to hate you. Can you imagine the hate these terrorists must have felt to be able to plan such a vicious act? Can you? I cannot, and if I could, I would be a monster. Do not create more hate in this world.
Do not negotiate with terrorists. Show the people that you care for them, and they may withdraw their support for the terrorists. Show the people the value of freedom. Show them freedom. Show them education. Show them hope. If they do not have hope, they may think terrorism is their only option.
Do not what you will regret tomorrow.
The world has been changed today. Although I am not much of an optimist, please let this be a new beginning, not the first year of the century of terrorism, for that is the alternative.
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Violence breeds violence. Enter this vicious circle at your own peril. What would happen if other terrorists choose to crash a plane into a nucear reactor near you? Are you and your friends immune to biological weapons? What would you do if you turned out to be the only immune humans?
Retaliation is not the way. The terrorists think of their act as retaliation. You think of it as retaliation. How will they think of your retaliation?
Nobody, nothing forces you to retaliate. You have a choice. Take it. Think. Try, if you can, try to imagine how you would feel if those US cruise missiles killed your friends, your parents, your children. That is why for every person killed in retaliation, a new terrorist will be created. Even if you could kill every terrorist "known, suspected, or rumoured", more, even more determined terrorists would take their places.
And you would even be doing some types of terrorist a favour, as to die in their holy war secures them a place in their heavens. The drug dealers may not have believed in a heaven and were certainly afraid, but you cannot scare someone longing to go to heaven. You can only hand him a ticket to heaven.
Do not, by retaliating, give the terrorists late justification for what they did. They are convinced that the US is evil and that they are right. Do not bear them out.
Do not give the terrorists what they crave most: Attention. Give your attention to the victims and their families. Give your attention to those who suffer. Give your attention to those who these misguided terrorists believe to represent and fight for.
Eliminate the reasons for terrorism. Do not attack the symptoms, cure the causes. Do not give other people reasons to hate you. Can you imagine the hate these terrorists must have felt to be able to plan such a vicious act? Can you? I cannot, and if I could, I would be a monster. Do not create more hate in this world.
Do not negotiate with terrorists. Show the people that you care for them, and they may withdraw their support for the terrorists. Show the people the value of freedom. Show them freedom. Show them education. Show them hope. If they do not have hope, they may think terrorism is their only option.
Do not what you will regret tomorrow.
The world has been changed today. Although I am not much of an optimist, please let this be a new beginning, not the first year of the century of terrorism, for that is the alternative.