YOU
MISSED AMERICA
Date: 9/11/2001 9:07p.m.
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 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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