Re: RC: NO EXCUSE FOR TERROR

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated Tue, 11 Sep 2001  6:29:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Tara Latocha" <horseyarab@ezol.com> writes:

> I'm sorry - but giving them some sort of excuse, or to allow ourselves to
> think that we are deserving of this violence is inexcusable. We do what we
> believe is right, and unfortunately, politics can be rather ugly. 

I'm not sure that being honest about consequences of past actions can be construed as giving anyone an excuse for terrorism.  It is not.  It takes an honest evaluation of who and why people might want to do this in order to deal with it, and to find and go after those who did it.  If one tries to rewrite history to make it appear rosier, one learns no lessons from it.

Heidi