some thoughts on day 1

[rhaenda]

> > But Measure your Words
> > > these days and be aware of the Lines they cut.  Please don't lecture
us
> > > about dealing with our enemies:
> >
>
> But the thing is that your decisions have repercussions for the rest of
> the world. Because of NATO Danish soldiers may be drafted to go to war
> in Central Asia. So lecturing or not... It's a fact of life that the US
> makes its decisions without regard to others, but when the body bags are
> sent home, they will also be sent to my country.

The Mayor of New York City has requested 30,000 body bags from various
sources.  It is hoped that is more than enough.  Yes, you joined NATO and
agreed to mutual defense and NATO kept Denmark free for more than fifty
years.  The debt is now called in and some Danes will suffer and perhaps
die.  That is how alliances work.  By international law and by treaty,
Denmark was also attacked.

What the fuck do you expect us to do?  Sign Kumbaya and hold candlelight
vigils?  This isn't an explosion outside a disco or a demonstration gone
bad, there may be 20,000 dead in the Trade Towers.  To give you a some
calibration data, 2,300 Americans died at Pearl Harbor, 1,500 people of many
nationalities died on the Titanic, 55,000 American soldiers died in Vietnam.
The bloodiest battle of the American civil war was at Antietam, Maryland
where 23,000 soldiers died in a single day.  This may pass that as the
bloodiest day in American history.  Roll up all the terrorist deaths in the
middle east over the last ten years-- you won't get close to what happened
in New York.