3) Shortly after 9-11 I read something that quoted a terrorist as saying that after Hiroshima America had lost the right to condemn terrorism. That hit a chord with me and I repeated it twice. The most liberal of my friends shrugged it off, saying it just sounded like rationalizing. My far right acquaintance screamed,"But we were attached!"--a cry that I took to mean that 9-11 justified any and everything we might do in response. I stopped passing on what I had read. Until now. The link brought it to mind again.
Martha, I had similar reaction from my friends and acquaintances when I weakly suggested (just after Sept 11) that we might want to reexamine our foreign policies....even among my liberal friends initially.
