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  • From: Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT dexxtra.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Dali Lama
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:50:51 -0400


I understand how Robert feels. I lived in New York for a couple of years, and
it is
absolutely inconceivable to me that this could have happened. I know everyone
is at least a
bit familiar with the city, but if you live there you understand just how
massive the WTC
really is. The Empire State building is tall, but elegant, not massive. The
towers were
ever-present, and frequently used to orient yourself when you exit a
building. You always
knew which way is south. Those towers were more reliable than the moon. Now
that it's gone,
it's easy to forget just how much bigger it was than the surrounding skyline.
I've been
glued to CNN, and I think they are broadcasting from around 34th St. That
means that those
cameras are quite a long way from the WTC, about 4 miles. It is unbelievable
to me that
what we are seeing is from a filter of distance, and I cannot imagine what it
was like
closer.

I have to say that I am feeling a taste for war, but that our old notions of
war are
outdated in this situation. I believe this is really a CIA problem, and we
will find a CIA
solution. (Never thought I'd say that...)

Maria

Robert Weeks wrote:

> I've seen a number of these emails in the last 24 hours and frankly I find
> them disturbing. We have responded non-violently to terrorism in the past,
> working through our judicial system to try to capture and prosecute the
> perpetrators of terrorism while the death tolls from these attacks have only
> increased.
>
> We've had a non violent response to:
>
> €the World Trade Center bombing in 1993
> €the bombing in 1995 of a Saudi National Guard training school in Riyadh
> €the truck bomb in 1996 that destroyed part of a housing complex used by
> American Air Force personnel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
> €the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa
> €the attack on the Navy destroyer Cole last October
>
> And these are just some of the terrorist actions attributed to Osama bin
> Laden and his allies over the last 10 years.
>
> The people who committed these acts were insane enough to give their own
> lives to carrying out their plans of inflicting pain, death and suffering on
> innocent American civilians, do you think they would understand diplomacy or
> a non-violent approach to resolving this situation?
>
> They declared war upon *us* through their actions. If we do not respond in
> kind the attacks are only going to get worse and more innocent people will
> die.
>
> At least five people I grew up with are missing in the World Trade Center,
> others I knew were injured or just escaped injury. I have friends who can't
> go back to their homes. Even if you do not personally know people who were
> injured or killed in this senseless act of cowardice, this is still going to
> affect each and everyone of us from the world economic turmoil that will
> surely follow.
>
> So Dali Lama, just what is the appropriate response???? Seems like we broke
> the circle of violence by reacting with violence to some of our past
> aggressors. You don't hear much about kamikazes these days.......
>
> I may not be politically correct, but this turn the other cheek stuff is
> making me ill.
>
> Robert
>
> Ps: I really *am* turning into my father as I get older - its scary.......
>
> On 9/13/01 7:58 AM, "Thomas Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is the Dalai Lama's letter to Bush. I must concur with his last
> > paragraph:
>
> > It may seem presumptuous on my part, but I personally believe we need to
> > think seriously whether a violent action is the right thing to do and in
> > the greater interest of the nation and people in the long run. I believe
> > violence will only increase the cycle of violence.
>
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