Ura, you don't really understand it
Actually I understand it perfectly. I was never reffering to the people cheering in the streets, I was talking about the level of indicriminateness of the attack as to which nation was being attacked. I know that Osama is a different breed so to speak from the regular muslim protester.
If you want to question the reason behind the killing of innocent Japanese, Canadians or whatsoever that were killed on the WTC, perhaps you should question the death of the innocent Arabs first.
To be perfectly blunt, why would I? Canada has for years been working its
oink off to try and save innocent arab lives by giving them food, medcal help and to rebuild their agrarian infrastructure. I deplore the killing of anything, I'm buddist, and all life whether its human, dog, fish, bird, or lobster is exactly equal, to be cherished and respected. I'm not being insensitive about it and I've spoken publicly irl before on trying to preserve life and why things such as bombing should be halted and why I didn't agree with the current bombing campaign after the second night because all there was left to hit are innocent people. The only reason for instance that Canada isn't working heavily in Iraq is because Saddam threatened to have us all killed if we tried and the current UN sanctions prevent us from doing more. In an effort to try and help more innocent arab lives Canada was forefronting the easing of those UN sanctions on Iraq until all this crap happened.
Canada has never been known for keeping its mouth shut on things like this in the international theater and has constantly moved for diplomatic solutions to crisis.
So why question the deaths of innocent arabs when we're so busily trying to prevent those deaths in the first place. We protest the actions that cause those deaths, but we're a single voice amongst hundreds, some of which are much louder then our own, especially if theres a call to war by one of the big ones.
Bin Ladin is different, he wants to kill innocent people, and although I in no way can justify that stupid mindset, I can certainly understand it.
I think more or less gives the answer to my question.
He knows there are Arabs, Candians, Americans and so on. He wants to prove that to get his revenge, he'll do anything and everything. He proved it quite perfectly.
This much I agree with you on. Though I still think he's bitten at more then even he can chew.
He hasn't mentioned those nationalities in his videotape (what we were allowed to see), just the USA and Americans.
He didn't mention them, because they weren't his target. He knew some of them will die in his action. He knew it really well. Everyone should know it...
Actually he or one of his people touched on this by saying that those who were not the targets will go to paradise because they're innocent. Or something along those lines. Basically the same idea as what happens to the suicide attackers after death.
I think we're saying the same thing, just coming at it differently.
This much is for certain.
