Countless innocents have died, a nation mourns a world sympathizes. But is it too much to ask that Americans do not now make a bad situation worse by killing countless more innocents?
When the U.S. military last attacked bin Laden, they killed thousands of very poor people and destroyed a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan–not a country with the money to buy drugs from abroad.
Iraqis and Afghans are massively oppressed by their “governments.” They are dying under sanctions and drought, and they hardly even have food or medicine, let alone rescue facilities like the units in New York.
We in Britain love much about America and we stand foursquare with you against terrorism, but please know that injustice breeds terror, blind vengeance breeds injustice and terrible acts of vengeance against innocent populations will only breed more terrorists.
For all our sakes now, please remember that Jesus was a peacemaker and that there is a world out here of billions of innocent people. We do not deserve brute punishments of a new world war.
Of course the guilty must be punished, but in this case most are already dead. God will deal with their souls.
We still on this Earth must spread peace, justice and understanding and then together we can make this world a safer place, a kinder place. The kind of place most ordinary Americans really want it to be, whatever your leaders may seek to do in your name.
Please, no war, but education, understanding, and justice for all. Thank you.
Zoe YoungLondon w2 UK
