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> SHAME ON YOU AMERICAN-HATING LIBERALS
> Tony Parsons of London Daily Mirror
>
> ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting - the
> mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless
> cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's
> mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like
> garbage in the Nazi concentration camps.
>
> An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that
> surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate.
> Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the
> perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
> increasingly seen as America's comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism
> has increased over the last
> year. There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this
> country too
> loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than Europeans
> - but it has become an epidemic.
>
> And it seems incredible to me. More than that, it turns my stomach.
> America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are
> bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a
> century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as
> well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon? And exactly a year ago,
> thousands of ordinary men, women and children -not just Americans, but
> from dozens of countries - were butchered by a
> Small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick to betray them? What
> touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the
> planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's
> son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And children. Some
> unborn. And these people
> brought it on themselves? And their nation is to blame for their
> meticulously planned slaughter?
>
> These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or
> Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The
> anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the
> Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering
> from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it
> likes without having to ask
> permission.
>
> The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
> September eleventh. Remember, remember. Remember the gut- wrenching tapes
> of weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were
> burned alive. Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top
> of burning
> skyscrapers. Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember the
> smiling
> face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of the planes with her
> mum. Remember, remember - and realize that America has never retaliated
> for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. So a ew al-Qaeda
> tourists got locked without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the Kleenex.
>
> So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired
> their semiautomatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but maybe
> next time they should stick to confetti. AMERICA could have turned a
> large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a sign of
> strength. American voices are already being raised against attacking Iraq
> - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will have
> a minute's silence for the
> slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many Islamic leaders will have the
> guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was an abomination? When the
> news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving Palestinians
> were dancing in the street. America watched all of that - and didn't push
> the button. We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful
> nation
> in the world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke
> all-out war. Not
> a "war on terrorism." A real war. The undamentalist dudes are talking
> about
> "opening the gates of hell", if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could
> have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe.
>
> The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face
> of the
> earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and
> the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived. But don't blame America for
> not bringing peace and light to these wretched countries. How many
> democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the Muslim world? You can
> count them
> on the fingers of one hand - assuming you haven't had any chopped off for
> minor
> shoplifting.
>
> I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's
> poodle. But I
> would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh. Above
> all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be -rich,
> free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or religion,
> or
> some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever had and
> we should
> start remembering that. Or do you really think the USA is the root of all
> evil?
>
> Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death
> from the burning towers. Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands
> died on one of
> the hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper.
> And tell it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the
> New York Fire Department. To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press
> than Saddam Hussein. Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds,
> tortured his own
> people and set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality
> Street. Save me
> the orange centre, oh mighty one! Remember, remember, September 11. One
> of the greatest atrocities in history was committed against America. No,
> do more than remember. NEVER FORGET.
>
>

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