9/11

I'm sure that everybody knows what I'm talking about.

The twin towers demolished and gone, the hundreds of innocent people killed...

It was a real tragic event, and people all over the world were irate at what had happened. They wanted whoever was responsible for this horrible event dead. And so, to gain revenge, the U.S.A. sent troops out to Iraq with one plan in mind; to kill the leader of this terrorist attack. They did kill the president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, so in a way, they succeeded. But, in the process of killing Hussein, they also killed tens of thousands of innocent people. And I'm completely against the ruthless killing of innocent people. Who isn't? Yet, whenever war breaks out, it's inevitabe. Many innocent people will lose their homes and suffer many casualties. I hate to see this happen. I understand the killing of Hussein, but why must we kill all these other people? Even children, (CHILDREN!!) died from this war. Now, don't get me wrong. I do feel just as angry as everybody else that this terrorist group caused such pain and suffering to everybody. The people that were killed during 9/11 were all innocent people, people just like you and me who would've never dreamed of this kind of thing happening to them all of a sudden, out of the blue! Of course, it's not right, of course we feel vengeful. Although I am against the purposeful killing of anyone, there is such thing as commiting a crime, a crime so severe that you can only pay for the lives of the thousands who died with your own. BUT. We are miserable that these people that were in the plane or the World Trade Center died, but what about those innocent people whose lives were taken in Iraq? Does that make sense to you? It doesn't to me. Just because some horrible, terrible man came and killed all these people, does that mean that we must charge into their country and shoot all these people down just as ruthlessly? No. Just the man behind 9/11 should've paid, not all these poor people. They've done nothing wrong. A lot of them probably didn't know what Hussein did in New York and were taken aback and horrified to find the U.S. troops marching into their country.

Anyways, my whole point is, just because someone hurt the innocent ones in our country, it doesn't mean we should hurt the innocent ones in theirs back.

Alright then, let's just remember today, the lives of those that were taken, both in Iraq and in New York.

I'll be back soon with another post, readers!