TimmyBoy
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I remember my time after coming home from Bosnia. I wanted to go on this big campaign to talk about the horrible injustices in Bosnia and how the US government acted as accomplices to the genocide of Bosnia's Muslims. I wanted to come home and make the case against the Clinton Adminstration like Clarence Darrow would before my fellow Americans. I wanted to discuss the bridge blown apart at Mostar, the hotel which we darkly called the "**** and Chuck" where Muslim women were taken, raped, had their throats slit and was tossed off the side into the Drina River from the cliff that the hotel sat on in Zvornik. I wanted to talk about Sniper Alley and the Seige of Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Marketplace bombing and the Sarajevo "rose petals." I wanted to discuss Osmaci, Zevencia, Tuzla and especially Srebrencia where I patrolled. 8,000 people murdered in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
However, what I discovered was that Americans never heard of many of these places and that the news media kept them so clueless as to what happenned that they didn't understand or know the massive scale of what happenned in this country. And even after discussing some of these things, what I found was that alot of Americans could care less what happenned and that their was alot of apathy. I did alot of research on the actions of US foreign policy from the US supported coup in Indonesia that brought a dictator to power who killed 500,000 of his own people with US support. Yet, their was little outrage from the American people. Or Argentina or the wars in Central America that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Still, no outrage from the American people. So long as it didn't directly affect the American people, the American people didn't care.
However, September 11 was a day of reckoning for the American people. You can't remain apathetic forever. You can't expect to allow your government to act with such impunity without paying a serious price. The truth of the matter is that the American people got a very tiny dose of what their government has been dishing out to other people and that by being apathetic, it costed the lives of 3,000 Americans. I think some Americans have finally woken up and learned a hard lesson from September 11. That you cannot be apathetic and that their is a very dangerous world outside of the United States. That their are people who have a vendetta against the US and are very determined to do whatever it takes to destroy America and not only that, that America was no saint and brought some of these attacks on itself. I think some Americans are beginning to learn and understand what drove these terrorists to attack them. That terrorists do not wake up one day and decide to attack a nation for no reason and though these terrorists certainly need to be brought to justice, that governments are not innocent either.
However, what I discovered was that Americans never heard of many of these places and that the news media kept them so clueless as to what happenned that they didn't understand or know the massive scale of what happenned in this country. And even after discussing some of these things, what I found was that alot of Americans could care less what happenned and that their was alot of apathy. I did alot of research on the actions of US foreign policy from the US supported coup in Indonesia that brought a dictator to power who killed 500,000 of his own people with US support. Yet, their was little outrage from the American people. Or Argentina or the wars in Central America that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Still, no outrage from the American people. So long as it didn't directly affect the American people, the American people didn't care.
However, September 11 was a day of reckoning for the American people. You can't remain apathetic forever. You can't expect to allow your government to act with such impunity without paying a serious price. The truth of the matter is that the American people got a very tiny dose of what their government has been dishing out to other people and that by being apathetic, it costed the lives of 3,000 Americans. I think some Americans have finally woken up and learned a hard lesson from September 11. That you cannot be apathetic and that their is a very dangerous world outside of the United States. That their are people who have a vendetta against the US and are very determined to do whatever it takes to destroy America and not only that, that America was no saint and brought some of these attacks on itself. I think some Americans are beginning to learn and understand what drove these terrorists to attack them. That terrorists do not wake up one day and decide to attack a nation for no reason and though these terrorists certainly need to be brought to justice, that governments are not innocent either.