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Originally posted by Morgan_Corbesant: i see your point of view, however, we DIDNT start this. liberals are so quick to put down America, especially those who dont even live here. it would be a completely different story if the attack came to YOUR land. im about 110% positive that if it happened in Europe, or Australia, or Asia, or New Zealand, that people would as the US for help. those people KNEW American planes were flying in the air. there is no way NOT to hear them, they are LOUD!! they shot guns into the air. our pilots are hundreds of feet in the air. all they saw was a group of people, shooting at them. they did what ANYONE would have done to protect himself. nobody sees it that way though. the liberals of the world have a field day with this stuff. more "ammunition" for their anti-military campaigns. these people killed THOUSANDS of innocent lives for NO reason, other than hate. we are killing MILITARY targets out of SELF DEFENSE, and retaliation. like i said, yes, its sad when innocent people had to die, but those people COULD have actually been firing at the planes, for all the pilots knew. im not a monster, i have feelings, and that is why i hate the taliban and al-quida, because they DONT have feelings, and they ARE monsters. kill them all, and let the powers that be sort them out. (not the civilians) all im saying is, when you are in the air, being fired upon, you dont have time to turn around, land your plane, give a location, get an intelligence briefing, refuel, reload, take off, and then proceed to bomb them. it was a target of opportunity, and unfortuneately, it was a bad target. people need to stop looking at all of the "negatives" that America sometimes does, and focus on all of the POSITIVES. all we are doing is trying to keep the world a safer place. you would understand if you were in the military. there is alot more that goes on than you could POSSIBLY imagine. lets put you into the middle of enemy controlled area, and have them shoot at you, and lets see how you would react. i use that as an example, just to illistrate(sp) my point. i wish that there WOULD be peace, and that everyone COULD get along. unfortuneately, places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran wont allow that to happen. America has been the target of terrorism forever, and we are NOT going to sit idley by while someone tries to do away with us, and our way of life. thanx for listening to my rhetoric.

Since when has small arms fire taken down a plane in Afghanistan? Since when did American planes even fly anywhere near the range of small arms fire? When the first attacks were carried out on Afghanistan, the Americans were the ones with the much vaunted high-tech aircraft which could fly miles above the clouds and not be detected. Since when did they suddenly come into the range of hand guns? And if pilots are as trigger-happy as you say...they don`t deserve to have the kind of power over life and death that they do.