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An open letter to a terrorist:
Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You
hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American
bodies, to take out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman,
you STILL missed America.
Why? Because of something you guys will never understand.
America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers,
not about military centers. America isn't about a place, America
isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An
idea that you can go someplace where you can earn as much as you
can figure out how to, live for the most part, like you envisioned
living, and pursue happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it,
but you can sure try!)
Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist
litany: "If you cannot see my point, then feel my pain."
This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where
we don't have to see your point. But you're free to have one. We
don't have to listen to your speech. But you're free to say one.
Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to agree
with you. We don't agree with each other in this country, almost
as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that don't agree,
called States. We united our individual states to protect ourselves
from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the spot.
You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.
If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's
an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes of feeling
free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too,
because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they
tend to fight like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War
of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground.
Didn't turn out like
England thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out
like you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on
our shores, just the most recent.
No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the
FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons
in anger.
Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko, it was back then too,
but we used it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and
we used 'em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project.
Told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the physicists
were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission,
or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would
eat everything. But they threw the switch anyway, because we had
a War to win. Does that tell you
something about American Resolve?
So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some
real
estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're probably at
war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're safe.
Just like the Barbary Pirates did, better start sleeping with one
eye open.
There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this
country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for
freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied
out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom
there was. First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run
out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in
prisons. It was a big pain in the ass then (especially in south
Florida), but you're only the
newest pain in the ass, not the first.
You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live
in America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what it's called.
And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't
change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of
Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes
an entirely
different kind of Spirit.
Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.
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