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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
While in no way excusing 9/11 it is important to realise 'we' the west have been slaughtering hundreds of thousands around the third world for decades, supporting despots and dictators, we are utterly invunerable to any kind of conventional attack, this is pretty much all they had to strike back at 'us', our response to this was to kill up to 20,000 civilians in drone strikes alone across the middle east, the invasion of Afghanistan on its own killed anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 Afghans, their deaths were just as horrific, they were mourned by there parents or children just like ours.
While individual workers in those towers were innocent the west is as guilty as hell
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I think as soon as you start keeping score, or try to, you've lost.
There is no good side or nation in all of this. No one came out clean.
All there is is now, and what we choose to do with the lessons of the past 20 years.