An open letter to
terrorists*
*While a great many of
these points are valid, this letter (IMHO) reflects the anger and the pain of
everybody in the free world. What it does not do is take into account that when
you injure a sleeping dragon you must expect to have your head bitten off.
Having said that, I am going to put this letter up with the understanding that
these raw emotions are now turning into cold, solid steel, resolve. Our rage
has become directed towards those who have inflected this terrible act on the
world. We want you to know that we are coming. You started it. We, and all
those who stand with us, will finish it.
Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the
Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American bodies, to take
out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed
America.
Why? Because of something you guys will never understand.
America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about
military centers, America isn't about a place, America isn't even about a bunch
of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where
you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part, like
you envisioned living, and pursue happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach
it, but you can sure try!)
Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine,
and chant your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my point, then feel my
pain." This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we don't
have to see your point. But you're free to have one. We don't have to listen to
your speech. But you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the strange
idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with each other in
this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that
don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to protect
ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the spot. You
CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country. If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an
unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes from feeling free and
easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too, because people start to
forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight like a cornered
badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812 was when England burned Washington
D.C. to the ground. Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and
it's not going to turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the
first bully on our shores, just the most recent.
No Marquis of
Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST and so far, the only
country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger. Horrific idea, nowadays?
News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two
of them in the whole world and we used them both. Grandpa Jones worked on the
Manhattan Project. Told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the
physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or
whether it would start a fission chain reaction that would eat everything. But
they threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does this tell you
something about American Resolve?
So who just declared War on us? It
would be nice to point to some real estate, like the good old days.
Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places -
who think they're safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did, if I recall
correctly. Better start sleeping with one eye open.
There's a spirit
that tends to take over people who come to this country, looking for
opportunity, looking for liberty, and looking for freedom. Even if they misuse
it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons were overjoyed to
find out how much freedom there was. First thing they did when they hit our
shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in
prisons. It was a big pain in the *** then (especially in south Florida), but
you're only the newest pain in the *** , not the first.
You guys seem
to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America, America lives
in US! American Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us,
or a few million of us, won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty
happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then
it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.
Wait until you see
what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're
coming.
Author Unknown
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