Did It Change Us? 9/11, five years later.

Submitted by steven L (United States), Sep 11, 2006 at 21:33

Each momentous event requires its own response and only time and history will testify to merits of our response. WW! and WWII cost money, sweat, blood and a lot of death and destruction. The fall of USSR (Communism) had a totally different prize a lot less deaths, blood, sweat, money and destruction. Our much more modern society see things very differently. Through the eyes of the left and liberal one may think that the war against communism was won almost only on ideology. Russia exhausted itself and run out of money and ideas. The EU and the liberals believe that a similar scenario will play itself with the fanatics of this world. But more than 4 billions of humans are in poverty and the left and liberals are not fighting this war. They behave no better than the conservatives. The majority of Muslims can easily turn in fanatics (anger) as the cartoons story proves it.

An explosion can easily be set-up by few mad individuals.

Should we just fight with words as the liberals seem to suggest?

One sure thing is to address the poverty problem and the failure of many countries to recognize human rights for all.

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