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Letter To A Terrorist:
You are a poor marksman.
You may have hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America.
You hit the pentagon, but you missed America.
You hit helpless American bodies, but you STILL missed America.
Why? Because of something you will never understand. America isnt about a building; its not about financial centers, or military hubs. America isnt about a place, America isnt even about its people.
America is about an IDEA. An idea that you can live free. Free to worship, free to dream, free to speak, free to love, free to bear arms, free to roam, free to congregate, free to earn as much as you can figure out how to, free to think, free to disagree, free to vote, free to choose, free to teach, free to learn, free to be alive, free to live the life you envision, and free to pursue happiness. (No guarantees that youll reach it, but you sure can try!)
Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine and chant your terrorist litany: if you will not listen, if you do not see my point, then feel my pain. This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we do not have to see your point, but you are free to have one. We dont have to listen to your speech, but you are free to make one. Dont know where you got the idea that everyone has to agree with you. (We disagree with one another all the time and we are free to do so.) Theres a Spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country. People looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. You seem to be incapable of understanding this Spirit. We dont live in America, America lives in us! American Spirit courses through us, it soars above and around us, and it finds its way into our hearts. Killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us for that matter, wont kill our Spirit. Instead youve strengthened it. You have brought us together, bound by our American Spirit.
Most of the time, its a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit until we are crossed by a coward, 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 are coming.
Signed,
America