9/11

I would like to start off by thanking everyone who helped during 9/11 and the weeks after. Also i would like to let everyone who lost somebody in the attacks and the wars following know that they are in my prayers and thoughts. I believe that on a political level, we are handling this situation completely wrong. Terrorism is not an act of war; it is a crime and therefore should be treated as one. It is true that the attacks on America were on a scale so large that it has never been seen before. America, stunned by the realization that we are not invincible declared war on Afghanistan ignoring the advice of its allies. We declared war on a country whose majority of people did not have anything to do with the attacks on America. We wanted to find the people responsible and in doing so we attacked and blew up their country. Isn’t that what they did to us? Are we terrorists on an even larger scale?  By declaring war on terrorists, we made them into warriors, glorified position in any culture. We were upset with a group of people so we destroy what they have as they did to us. Militias in Afghanistan fought with us because we are ruining their country just as we did when they attacked. Are we really that different from the cowards who kill innocent people to prove a point that America cannot and will not ever understand? England has lowered tensions with the IRA through diplomatic means. They were treated as criminals and as people with power and agreements were made. England did not declare war on the whole country because of the actions of a few people. They made resolutions through talk. America should learn from the past and see that we also need to try diplomatic means. The retired head of the counter-terrorism branch of MI-5 says that the war on terror is as productive as the war on drugs and will never be won through violence.