This heinous act of terrorism that claimed the lives of so many people in New York is still calling for retaliation. It brought our country to a point of irrationality that it has never felt before. When our leader declared, “We are at war,” he led us into an unbelievably emotional feeling of the necessity to strike back immediately.
To strike back at what? If it hadn’t been for some more rational heads calming us, how much blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people would have been spilled because of this horrible action of a few? Really, it is time to interject that we should learn to put more effort into giving the people of the world some reasons to like us.
There is no question that we should hunt these terrorists down and make them pay for this horrible act, but let us be sure we punish the right people and not be as irrational as they, who destroyed the lives of so many innocent people.
This world is full of hatred, people hating because of race, color and belief. It is prevalent in our own country as hate crimes are on the rise. It is time that the world’s churches and schools teach all of us of tolerance and the right of others to be different than we. If we don’t learn this very basic fact of life, then the people that keep predicting the end of the earth will have the final say.
Snohomish
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