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Originally Posted by Tim
A sad story - but not surprising. A majority of Canadians blame Americans for 9/11...   Yet there were some Canadians who died that day as well. How can they? Why ask why...
There's no point in arguing about it anymore. If Canadians (or anyone) prefer to blame Americans, there is no way to convince them otherwise. There is great deal of hatred and cowardice in this, but anti-Americanism this deep and ugly cannot be met with rational discussion.
The world is an easier place to live in for those who ignore evil, and anti-Americansim is the current trend - and of course, it is both safe and even enjoyable for Canadians, or for anyone, who wants to avoid living in the real world.
But ignoring reality never pays in the long run. |
Well, we're not blaming Americans for being directly involved in 9/11, we're blaming the foreign policies of the United States over a period of years. Such a case can be made by the fact that the CIA trained Osama and installed the Taliban to fight against the Solviets. I blame the US's attempts to 'democratize' the world through the use of cultural assimilation as a catalyst. I would never blame the people themselves for being the cause of any attack, as the people themselves had little involvement in overall policy. I don't think of Canadians as anti-american, and I don't think of this as anti-american, you can feel free to deny this as anti-american to avoid a rational discourse, but I don't like it when americans say something is anti-american to end all possible disscussion.