This reply makes me wonder if you have read my post entirely. In case you didn't notice,I did mention that I would feel sorry for the families themselves and the individuals.B4DD said:Ima come at this from a new angle. How exactly is it my responsibility for all the "atrocities" my country commits overseas? Let's forget that I was in the fifth grade when we invaded Iraq. The guys calling the shots over there are not elected by the people of America.Aposthebest said:Personally I would feel sorry for any of the families that the incident took its toll from,but for America as a nation, I wouldn't care any less and the only reason why it could bear any significance here in Greece is because most of the population are being mindlessly sheep-herded by the media.(We had the royal wedding on our tv screens for 3 freakin days,for christ's sake!)
America in my eyes has no right whatsoever to call that a big blow after the atrocities your favourite Uncle Sam has caused all over the world. The list of deaths from America is endless and surely extends to much more than 3000-4000.
Imagine a serial killer who has killed hundreds of victims stand in the middle of a square garden and yell that he was victim of violence due to one of the victims' family member cutting his pinky toe, that's what America and 9/11 is in my eyes by a national prespective.
Now lets take your serial killer analogy with my argument as support. Could you blame the families of the victims of the serial killer when they called for the head of the person that killed their loved ones? I sure wouldn't. In my eyes, i was in the third grade when the towers fell, as someone physically unaffected by said events I saw our country as no longer untouchable. I wouldn't go so far as to say I lost my innocence, but damnit I was a little boy an I was afraid. My country could no longer protect me and the old adage "the best defense is a good offense" seemed like our best bet. So please explain to me what I did to commit all these atrocities as a now 18 year old American citizen?
But the anniversary and the worldwide publicity is not about the families,it's about the country. You and no single individual american represents the country. What does represent the country is its actions as a whole and when America wants publicity for something so minor compared to what they have done in history, they won't have my 2 cents,that's my point of view.
I didn't blame you or any american personally,I blamed your country, the same way I'd blame mine for all the bullshit we're going through.
If after 10 years your country thinks that it was SUCH a big issue that it needs to be brought upon the world every single year, then I doubt your country actually cares about the families anyway, for them they just lost the terror war. I highly doubt that they would shed any actual REAL tear for the families.