Letters to the Editor
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The point ...
... is not that 9/11 was retribution for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Is that what you detractors think is meant by "chickens coming home to roost?" No.
The point is, we as Americans seem to think that our lives are more important than the lives we seem to so willingly take overseas to win our wars. What is the number one justification the Bush Administration uses for the Iraq War? Answer: we were attacked. Translation: Any American death necessitates an all-out attack on any who dare to challenge our supremacy, regardless (seemingly) of how many lives are lost in the process. Case in point: We've now lost more *American* lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars than were lost on 9/11. Surely that makes no practical sense, but it just pisses off conservatives even more and adds to their search for vengeance. Every soldier lost demands exponentially more foreign deaths, whether intentional or not. That we find our strategy to fail utterly in convincing the world that American might makes right is simply put "the chickens coming home to roost."