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[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t really get the stance of “you wanted revenge, bloodthirsty revenge murica”. Did you forget that innocent lives were taken, unasked?

What the fuck would YOU do? Sit there and twiddle your thumbs all like “oh…3,000 people, never forget. sniff”.

That is revenge. You think it is justified revenge. Perhaps it was though history did not start on 11/09/2001. It certainly is not "we were over there for well over a decade trying to fix that shit" as the guy I replied too said.

You also kind of forgot about the guy that actually arranged the attack for a few years while many more people died than in Afghanistan and Iraq than in WTC, most of them having nothing to do with the attacks.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You also kind of forgot about the guy that actually arranged the attack for a few years while many more people died than in Afghanistan and Iraq than in WTC, most of them having nothing to do with the attacks.

You were completely right until this point. It was absolutely for revenge, and the Bush Administration preyed on that desire to mislead the US into an awful war where even more innocent people lost their lives.

But there's no need to minimize the lives lost on 9/11. We can grieve for both. Arguing about which matters more because more people died takes away from the more important point -- a tragedy was used to manipulate people into supporting another tragedy.