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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 can not 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, IIRC. 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 PITA then
(especially in south Florida), but you're only the newest PITA, 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 Charles Brennan Sarah Parr
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