Letter to a Terrorist

forwarded by MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

Subject: Letter to terrorist

> An open letter to a terrorist: Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but
> you missed America. You hit the Pentagon, but you  missed America. You
> used helpless American bodies, to take out other American  bodies, but
> like a poor marksman, you STILL missed America. Why? Because of
> something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building
> or two, not  about financial centers, not about military centers,
> America isn't about a place, America isn't even about a bunch of bodies.
> America is about an IDEA. An idea--that you can go someplace where you
> can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part
> like you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees that
> you'll reach  it, but you can sure try!) Go ahead and whine your
> terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my
> point, then feel my pain." This concept is alien to Americans. We live
> in a country where we don't have to see your point. But you're free to
> have one. We don't have to listen to your speech. But you're free to say
> one. Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to
> agree with you. There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come
> to this country, looking for opportunity,  looking for liberty, looking
> for freedom. Even if they misuse it. You guys seem to be  incapable of
> understanding that we don't live in America, America lives in us!
> American  Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us,
> or a few million of us, won't  change it. Most of the time, it's a
> pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly
> manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit. Wait until
> you see what we do with that Spirit, this time. Sleep tight, if you can.
>
>     We're coming.....