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I suspect there is a grain of truth in there somewhere but the point is about 50,000 people were in the world trade centre when it came down.
They were not in a war, they were not in a country in a dispute with itself they were just normal people going about their own lives many went to work in the morning and will never go back home to their families again.
The scale of what happened is what has stunned everyone not just the fact that it was America-although that played a part.
I think there would be shock and outrage no matter where something like this happened but again it wouldn't happen in Estonia because the terrorists deliberately struck at potent symbols of western ideology-capitalism. And there are none of them in Estonia or most other countries for that matter.
Yes bad things happen to people all over the world but in MOST cases rape, murder etc only affects one or two people-its not acceptable but it happens.
This will have world wide repercussion that is why everyone is jumping up and down-it is going to cost billions to repair the damage, fuel prices will go up if Bush falls out with the Middle East over this, tourism worldwide will suffer because americans won't want to fly anywhere and international insurance companies are going to hike up their premiums to pay for the claims they are going to receive from New York companies and residents.
Oh and there's the chance of a full scale war between the US and whoever sponsored these terrorists.
It is not that American lives are more important than those of other nations they are not its just that this afects us all like it or not.
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