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To: NOW who wrote (13549)	9/13/2001 7:39:09 PM
From: UnBelievable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

To Promote Patriotism As The Appropriate Response To This Attack Indicates That while the countries leaders have recognized that we face a new type of enemy, they do not realize the implications of that understanding. I have to admit that this whole patriotism thing makes me a bit uneasy. In this age of the fading of geographic boundaries it seems that a perspective that is dominated by the concepts of geographic boundaries and countries is going to fail. What happened was that an act of reprehensible cruelty was committed by a group of ignorant people against innocent people. Our feelings about the inappropriateness of that act should not be based on the fact that the people were primarily Americans. Terrorism against human beings is no less abhorrent based on what country those human beings live in. I am a citizen of this world. My allegiance is to those who respect the sanctity of every human life, based only upon the fact that it is a human life. My enemy is those who act to benefit themselves, individually or in collaboration with others, at the expense of other human beings. The form of collaboration is not relevant. It may be a country, it may be a terrorist network, it may be a tribe or a family. The pain that a mother feels over the loss of a child, a husband at the loss of a wife, a wife the loss of a husband, is no different if the loss is in the United States, or Afghanistan. In making this a crime against the United States we make it impossible for the people of Afghanistan to recognize that the terror which some who they have allowed to reside in their country have inflicted, is not just on the people of the United States, but on the innocent people of their country as well. There is nothing about being a citizen of any country which ensures goodness, nor anything about residing in another which precludes it.