NEVER FORGET - The 9/11/01 New Math!!!

[mrs.b]

Personally I always saw Osama Bin Laden as a kind of Frankenstein. I mean, America more or less created, trained, armed, and angered, him and his men. I think that's an important lesson for kids to learn. The mistake wasn't being complacent about safety in the us. The real mistake was being complacent about dangers caused by the us around the world

Every political, religious, or philosophical cause has opposition. If it didn't, it wouldn't need to be a cause because it would be widely accepted. Most causes feel the opposition is oppressive. While some political, religious, or philosophical disagreements turn violent - and few would consider that anything but heartbreaking - what should those now-dead civilians have known and done to prevent their murder? It's the main reason targeting civilians is considered a war crime; few nations' military Powers-That-Be consult their civilian population on the "dangers caused by (insert subject nation here) around the world." Individuals who intentionally target, go to great lengths to plan for, and murder as many civilians as possible lose any credibility they might have otherwise gained toward reaching an understanding for their cause. What it does, instead, is turn those complacent civilians that might have potentially seen some common ground with the cause if it were handled in any other way to become outraged and supportive of full-scale assaults against said cause. Case in point, see September 12, 2001 to current.

While I'll pass on the discussion of the existence, benefits, and ramifications of the referenced dangers (that's like saying, "let's sit down and decide upon a true, right religion") I don't know that any amount of open debate regarding bin Laden and his actions will help me see that his motives or anger somehow justified his and his movement's actions.