Harry Browne after the terrorist attacks on
The World Trade Center and The Pentagon.
My comments are in red. All italics are inserted
by me also.
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When Will We Learn?
by Harry Browne
The
terrorist attacks against America comprise a
horrible tragedy. But they shouldn't be a
surprise.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty
is truth -- that during any war truth is forsaken
for propaganda. But sanity was a prior casualty:
it was the loss of sanity that led to war in the
first place.
(Harry Browne here has in essence blamed the attack
on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon on US!!)
Our
foreign policy has been insane for decades.
It was only a matter of time until Americans would
have to suffer personally for it. It is a terrible
tragedy of life that the innocent so often have to
suffer for the sins of the guilty.
When we will learn that we can't allow our
politicians to bully the world without someone
bullying back eventually?
President Bush has authorized continued bombing of
innocent (?)
people in Iraq. President Clinton bombed
innocent (?) people
in the Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq,
and Serbia. President Bush Senior (rightly so) invaded
Iraq and Panama.
President Reagan bombed innocent (?)
people in Libya
and invaded Grenada. And on and on
it goes.
Did we think the people who lost their families
and friends and property in all that destruction
would love America for what happened?
(Choose you this day whom you will
serve.)
When will we learn that violence always begets
violence?
Teaching Lessons
Supposedly, Reagan bombed Libya to teach Muammar
al-Qaddafi a lesson about terrorism (payback for
the
Berlin disco bombing). But shortly
thereafter a TWA plane (Pan Am Flight 103) was
destroyed
over Scotland, and our government is
convinced (Proven in a world court of law) it was
Libyans who
did it.
When will we learn that "teaching someone a
lesson" never teaches anything but resentment --
that it only inspires the recipient to greater
acts of defiance. Would you rather have us kowtow
to their every wicked, demented demand???
How many times on Tuesday did we hear someone
describe the terrorist attacks as "cowardly acts"?
But as misguided and despicable as they were, they
were anything but cowardly. (If Osama bin Laden and
his
cohorts are not cowards, then why are
they hiding in the caves of
Afghanistan?) The people who committed them knowingly gave
their lives
for whatever stupid beliefs they held.
But what about the American Presidents who order
bombings of innocent people -- while the
Presidents remain completely insulated from any
danger? What would you call their acts? (Here
again,
Harry Browne chooses to call our
President Bush a COWARD!!)
When will we learn that forsaking truth and reason
in the heat of battle almost always assures that
we will lose the battle? Sounds like to me that Harry
Browne is the one who has forsaken truth
and reason!!!
Losing our Last Freedoms
And now, as sure as night follows day, we will be
told we must give up more of our freedoms to
avenge what never should have happened in the
first place.
When will we learn that it makes no sense to give
up our freedoms in the name of freedom?
What to Do
What _should_ be done?
First of all, stop the hysteria. Stand back and
ask how this could have happened. Ask how a
prosperous country isolated by two oceans could
have so embroiled itself in other people's
business that someone would want to do us harm.
Even sitting in the middle of Europe, Switzerland
isn't beset by terrorist attacks, because the
Swiss mind their own business. If you love the Swiss so
much, then why don’t you move there,
renounce your U.S.
Citizenship, and become a Swiss
Citizen?
Second, resolve that we won't let our leaders use
this occasion to commit their own terrorist acts
upon more innocent people, foreign and domestic,
that will inspire more terrorist attacks in the
future. How
dare Harry Browne compare our president
to terrorists??
Third, find a way, with _enforceable_
constitutional limits, to prevent our leaders from
ever again provoking this kind of anger against
America. I see you still think this is our entire fault. You are
an idiot.
Patriotism?
There are those who will say this article is
unpatriotic and un-American -- that this is not a
time to question our country or our leaders.
When will we learn that without freedom and
sanity, there is no reason to be patriotic?
Harry Browne, you are either for us,
or against us.
May God have pity upon your soul.
Go to the Second Newsletter from Harry Browne.
