<I bet he didn't watch the towers fall on 9/11.>
No, but he did watch the Civil War. On how many days, in that war, did more Americans die in combat than on 9/11? 20 days? 50 days? The Civil War was bloodier than today's war (so far, for us) by a factor of about 100 to 1. Our dead were in the hundreds of thousands, not thousands.
But you will be right, at some point, if we keep on the present course. They hit us, we hit them, repeat, repeat, repeat. Eventually, They get nukes, and use them. And we reciprocate. Repeat. Repeat.
And MLK will still be right:
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. How much longer must we play at deadly war games before we heed the plaintive pleas of the unnumbered dead and maimed of past wars?" |
