Fw:WRL on Attacks, some thoughts on day 1

[Jasper Fidget]

History ceased to be relevant on 11 September, 2001.  Context ceased to
exist.  The boundaries surrounding that second crash are impossible to see
now, so obscene was the event, so devastating to the American heart and
mind, sending details of place, incident, practice, and debate into an empty
vaccum.  All that matters now is the innevitability of war, and the
necessity of TERRIBLE and MERCILESS revenge.  The US has been changed by
this event--do not mistake it--our temperence lies in the same rubble as the
skyline of our greatest city.  Your worries about compassion and fairness
and even justice are irrelevant.  Compassion was not a factor in the minds
of our enemies--nor will it be in ours.  Fairness now involves only what's
fair to our dead.  Justice now will only be decided with the sword.

I speak only of innevitabilities--my own feelings are irrelevant.  If you
choose to deny these things then you have no concept of the prevailing
American ethos at this moment.  We are angrier now then we have ever been.
We are more willing now to fight, to kill, to destroy, then we have ever
been.  There is no hope for our enemies now.

We see these people dancing in their streets, passing out candy, firing
their guns into the air, and we stop caring about "innocent" lives; we see a
nest of terrorists that hates us, our families, and our country, and we will
protect these things whatever the cost to ourselves, and whatever the
objections of pampered passive fools who have lost their sense of honor and
duty, their sense of liberty and responsibility, their sense of their own
value.

It is too late to withdraw, impossible to return.  We have been reluctantly
forced into the role of Empire now, and this Empire will strike back.

"I am the Sword of God, come to give you judgement."  --Hulagu Khan to
Baghdad


Jasper Fidget