RE: RC: NO EXCUSE FOR TERROR

["Tara Latocha" <horseyarab@ezol.com>]

This sentence:

>A certain amount of "Now *you* know how it feels" is understandable.

This is why I wrote what I wrote.

Tara.

-----Original Message-----
From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com [mailto:CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:53 PM
To: horseyarab@ezol.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: Re: RC: NO EXCUSE FOR TERROR


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