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Old 09-14-2001, 03:39 PM   #1
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Subject: Outstanding editorial "The Seattle Times: The barbarians

THE BARBARIANS WILL LEARN WHAT AMERICA'S ALL ABOUT

>By Leonard Pitts Jr.
>Syndicated columnist
>
>They pay me to tease shades of meaning from social and cultural issues, to
>provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the American
>soul.
>But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving
eyes,
>the only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem to fit, must be
>addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.
>
>You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard.
>
>What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World
>Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn?
Whatever it was, please know
>that you failed.
>
>Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.
>
>Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.
>
>Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.
>
>Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a
>family rent by racial, cultural, political and class division, but a
family
>nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous
emotional energy
>on pop cultural minutiae, a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's
>misfortune, a cartoon mouse.
>
>We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and
>material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a
>certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though
â€" peace-loving and
>compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we
are, the overwhelming
>majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.
>
>Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're
still
>grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to
>make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some
>Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel.
>
>Both in terms of the awful scope of its ambition and the probable final
>death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of
terrorism in
>the history of the United States and, indeed, the history of the world.
>You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before.
>
>But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us
>fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last
time
>anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and
>monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in
our force.
>When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay
>any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.
>
>I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I
>think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with
>dread of the future.
>
>In days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers
>pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be
done to
>prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security,
>misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms.
>We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined,
>too. Unimaginably determined.
>
>You see, there is steel beneath this velvet. That aspect of our character
>is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this day, the
>family's bickering is put on hold. As Americans we will weep, as Americans
we will
>mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish.
>
>Still, I keep wondering what it was you hoped to teach us. It occurs to me
>that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred.
>
>If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message
in
>exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're about. You
>don't know what you just started.
>
>But you're about to learn.
>
>Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.'s column usually appears Thursday
>on
>editorial pages of The Times. His e-mail address is:
>leonardpitts@mindspring.com
>
>
>
>Copyright © 2001 The Seattle Times Company

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Old 09-14-2001, 03:45 PM   #2
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Right on target.
 
Old 09-14-2001, 03:50 PM   #3
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Old 09-14-2001, 04:01 PM   #4
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Awesome!!! I'll pass it on to everyone I know.

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Old 09-14-2001, 04:11 PM   #5
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I've only got one comment about that article:
I wish there was a clapping smiley.
Whoever planned that horrible assault have just doomed themselves, the majority of the rest of the world is unified and ready to fight them, they will not break us, not even by doing something as horrible as what they have done.

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Old 09-14-2001, 04:31 PM   #6
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Thank you,
You target.

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Old 09-14-2001, 04:45 PM   #7
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Thats Great! I'll tell my friends!

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Old 09-14-2001, 05:10 PM   #8
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RIght on!!

That artical sooo rocks!!

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Old 09-15-2001, 10:46 PM   #9
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Great post!!!!!!!!!!

My sentiments, EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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