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Originally Posted by dr wadd
Some of us simply aren`t sitting on the forum 24/7.
I don`t think you'll find anyone has said it was reasonable, merely that it was undertandable why someone would do it.
As Downquark pointed out, you can't look at the world in absolutes, there is no black & white, it is all shades of grey. You can`t look at an event without examining the wider context behind the event. The inability to see events from someone else's point of view is symptomatic of the arrogant attitude of some that we are somehow the good guys and they are the evil enemy. It's all cause and effect, and these are merely the effects of the actions of the west. It is time that people started examining the attitudes of the west in the context of the world as a whole.
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Nothing wrong with examening the wider context behind events. I think that if you are talking about cause and effect then the effect was out of all proportion to the cause (at least in the 9/11 and even Bali bomb cases)
No ammount of apologism can change the fact that the acts carried out by those terrorists were obcsene and there can be no excuse for them. There are no shades of gray in an act like that.
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So you see 9/11 as 'understandable'?
Ok, does anyone here know exactly why they did it?