radioheadrule83
Banned
Seeing the disaster happen and thinking about all the people involved, and the general callousness of the act still makes me incredibly pissed off 4 years on. There's a special on National Geographic in the UK right now.
The meticulous cold and calculated planning illustrated as they go through the run up to the crime still sends shocks through my nervous system, and I get the same irrational feelings as I had that day. I remember the day vividly. I got home from college without even knowing it had happened. Nobody knew unless they were near a TV. I was busy studying. When I got home, I literally sat down with my coat and bag and didn't move. I cabbaged out in front of the TV in silence right through the night, and when I DID go to bed I watched the same looped articles on TV until I fell asleep.
All I wanted then, and all I can think now, is that I was rooting for the US of A. I genuinely believed whoever the fuck was to blame should be nuked from existence. I wanted to see a sharp response and conclusion with the barbarism beat down so ferociously that nobody would EVER think of doing such a thing in the west ever again.
There hasn't been a terrorist act in the US since, but its shockwave has been felt in African embassies, in the holiday resort of Bali, Indonesia, shocked a country already riddled with ETA-led terrorism, and found its way onto the London Underground. It really is a war, and there was NO swift conclusion. Were we not ferocious enough? Is the west not united enough? Not of strong enough conviction? Or is all of the witch hunting true... are we to blame?
Some part of me now forever detests the Saudis, however many million innocent there may be.. I still want the Afghan situation resolved with might.. I supported the Iraq war (I probably wouldn't if I could turn back time btw), and the horrendous ends the Iraqi resistance goes to has made Iraq a focus for my disdain of hate-mongers and barbarism. I would have the best day of my life if I woke up tomorrow and US soldiers were brandishing Zarqawi's head on a pike for the whole world to see. He's that much of a symbol for me. I know about the deaths of innocents in other countries. I know our actions cause misery in other parts of the world. But I don't want pull outs... some twisted part of me wants the West to get out there and succeed in forcing our way, the only way I know, and a way I consider relatively civilised and controllable all over the world. I want to see the end of all religious extremism. I would even support a full religious purge. There's a scary concept! Sound a little like Hitler's final solution?
Don't get me wrong, if I were American I wouldn't be a Bush supporter, but my hate (or fear?) of that region of the world would remain. I remember being so distressed by Bush's reelection, and all I thought it would mean for the UK and the rest of the world: but having saw this footage again and having felt the irrational feelings it evokes in me, I'm reminded of why its in some part understandable.
All this from the footage recorded on that ill-fated day.
I really will never forget.
The meticulous cold and calculated planning illustrated as they go through the run up to the crime still sends shocks through my nervous system, and I get the same irrational feelings as I had that day. I remember the day vividly. I got home from college without even knowing it had happened. Nobody knew unless they were near a TV. I was busy studying. When I got home, I literally sat down with my coat and bag and didn't move. I cabbaged out in front of the TV in silence right through the night, and when I DID go to bed I watched the same looped articles on TV until I fell asleep.
All I wanted then, and all I can think now, is that I was rooting for the US of A. I genuinely believed whoever the fuck was to blame should be nuked from existence. I wanted to see a sharp response and conclusion with the barbarism beat down so ferociously that nobody would EVER think of doing such a thing in the west ever again.
There hasn't been a terrorist act in the US since, but its shockwave has been felt in African embassies, in the holiday resort of Bali, Indonesia, shocked a country already riddled with ETA-led terrorism, and found its way onto the London Underground. It really is a war, and there was NO swift conclusion. Were we not ferocious enough? Is the west not united enough? Not of strong enough conviction? Or is all of the witch hunting true... are we to blame?
Some part of me now forever detests the Saudis, however many million innocent there may be.. I still want the Afghan situation resolved with might.. I supported the Iraq war (I probably wouldn't if I could turn back time btw), and the horrendous ends the Iraqi resistance goes to has made Iraq a focus for my disdain of hate-mongers and barbarism. I would have the best day of my life if I woke up tomorrow and US soldiers were brandishing Zarqawi's head on a pike for the whole world to see. He's that much of a symbol for me. I know about the deaths of innocents in other countries. I know our actions cause misery in other parts of the world. But I don't want pull outs... some twisted part of me wants the West to get out there and succeed in forcing our way, the only way I know, and a way I consider relatively civilised and controllable all over the world. I want to see the end of all religious extremism. I would even support a full religious purge. There's a scary concept! Sound a little like Hitler's final solution?
Don't get me wrong, if I were American I wouldn't be a Bush supporter, but my hate (or fear?) of that region of the world would remain. I remember being so distressed by Bush's reelection, and all I thought it would mean for the UK and the rest of the world: but having saw this footage again and having felt the irrational feelings it evokes in me, I'm reminded of why its in some part understandable.
All this from the footage recorded on that ill-fated day.
I really will never forget.
