Originally posted by Quiero Mota
No, not really. When Al Qaida beheads Americans and then post it on the internet, it seems more befitting of their typical behavior. I woudn't expect them to give an American POW a proper burial with a grave-marker. That's the whole point: in a war, competing sides have historically never been all that respectful of the enemy dead. That's why Xerxes crucified Leonidas' body uspide down. And frankly, a burial at sea for bin Laden was too respectful. They should have planted that SOB's head on a wooden stake.By the way, it wasn't "3,000 Americans". It was less than 3,000 and citizens from over 90 different countries were killed. Including yours.
If that's your view that's fine. If terrorist do it, we should do it too. Logically, you're the same as terrorists and thus have absolutely no right to complain at their actions - since you're employing the same level of morality, practices and such.
Your're organised terrorist with better weaponry and they're nomadic ones with crappy weaponry. It just goes back and forth.
How many people died from few other countries in the twin towers isn't going draw any sympathy from me - all the people Mourning the victims of 9/11 are mourning the attack on Americans not on some Africans, Europeans or Asians that happen to be in that tower.
Don't even try to make this as some ''international'' incident, because it's not. It was not an attack on Africans, it was not an attack on East Asians, nor Russians, nor Swiss - it was an attack on Americans.
And if we follow ''they do it, so should we, plus add some 2500 years old war practices'' - it was a fair game.
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