Forget what now?

Jokes aside, the whole world was NOT dealt a massive blow. Please try not to forget that America's one of the only countries who hasn't had a war fought on its own shores within the last 50 years.

Compared to most of the conflict that goes on in the world, two buildings and a couple of thousand people dying is miniscule.

I'm not saying those who died were worthless. America's a screwed up country, but most of the fault lies with those in charge, not the mostly innocent people who got killed, so it certainly shouldn't have happened.

But really. It was a tiny strike. It wasn't an attack, it wasn't a devastating blow, and it certainly wasn't war.

tl;dr: get over it.

In the term 'dealt a massive blow' I simply meant many of the worlds companies had offices in the WTC. When the towers fell, stock markets in other nations fell quite a bit, IIRC the Japanese market got the worst. Our own stock market has just now risen out of the hole caused by 9/11.

As for America being screwed up, I agree in a way. Our leaders have lost sight of what the big picture is and only want what's best for them. But this is my country, my home, after all, what would be the reaction if say Buckingham Palace, or the Eiffel Tower, or the Kremlin were distroyed? To people around the world, the WTC was not as historic as the other buildings, this I know, but to us it one of our greatest landmarks.

As I said, I know it wasn't a good thing to happen. It killed a good amount of people, lowered the economy quite a bit for more markets than just America's, and scared America witless in realizing they weren't invulnerable.

But it was no Hiroshima (Yes I understand Hiroshima was necessary and saved more people than it killed, but I'm just using it as a comparison for both damage and death), and it was no great depression. If it was a true tragedy America would have climbed back up and moved on like it - and other countries - always does after a true tragedy. Frightening and sad? Sure. But every country has been through worse that were far more deserving of 7 years of mourning, even America itself.

Yeah American leadership was lacking IN 1990 F****** 8 When good old Bill Clinton was handed Osama Bin Laden, by Pakistan, his reply to the delivery of a man spewing anti American rhetoric was he is no danger. Look what happened just 3 F****** Years later. In the WTC nearly 3 thousand people died, and lets not forget OUR STRATEGIC COMMAND CENTER the Pentagon, luckily enough the was only 1 military casualty but still a plane full of civilians died. Not Four years passed and Spain, Russia, Britain had all received terrorist presents in London, Madrid, and a F****** School with young children. Now tell yourself that the world didn't take a hit you Ignorant B*****. I sat through a political science class with the professor telling me bush had bombs blow up the WTC and Pentagon to get a reason to go to Iraq. If I'm not mistaken Iraq wasn't where we went first, We went to Afghanistan, AN EX-ALLY from the Cold War, and had to over throw a tyrannical government, then we went to Iraq, a terror harboring nation and liberated a people who were being GASED by there government. One country over is the nation of Iran with a leader who professes his hatred of Israel, OUR ALLY, and wants to invade and destroy it, he is has and will be building Nukes to further his plans. When I regain my composure I am going to give you a lesson in world history.

tl;dr

Which means, Most people don't understand those weird little lettering's beyond ttyl and brb and the whole group of lol's.

Actually most people do.

But I'll humour you. It means 'too long; didn't read.'

Here's some humor for you, Communist B****. In Western culture women are free, in Middle Easter culture women get buried alive for choosing a husband there family doesn't like. If such tyranny exists in the world, the rest of the world, even if it's just one sovereign nation, is allowed to stop it. Their culture or not human beings have god given rights, man or woman, black, white, or purple polka dot.

-I'm not a communist.
-I'm Australian.
-You have no right to interfere in the politics of others, regardless of how bad you, or even they, think it is. They dug their own hole, let them get out of it and stop being children trying to make the world some happy bullshit place it's never going to be.
-God is just your opinion and you have no right to say what other people should or should not have or do based on a stupid opinion like that. You can let religion run your own life if you wish, but you can't tell others to let your beliefs run their lives.

Christianity is contradictory, it's bigotted, and the bible preaches that women, gay people, and black people, are all somehow inferior to the white straight male. It may as well be preaching Aryan thinking. I'm sure there are plenty of other countries who view America's Christian worshipping as them being underpriviledged, brainwashed, and that your rights are being taken away by the religion that so many of you so blindly follow. If other countries took up America's ideals of 'helping' everyone else to be more like their own, happy, enlightened selves (see: suicide, obesity, non-voter, abuse and crime rates, etc), then America would have been given a regime change a loooong time ago.

Good thing they aren't immature little kids who can't keep to their own damn business.

Looks like you have no background in world history, much less the history of your own nation. Almost every Sovereign nations founding principles now a days is that every human being has certain inalienable rights, and the people have the right to over throw tyrannical governments. Maybe you should drop your screen of ignorance and pick up the works of Locke, and for your information the True Church doesn't preach against blacks, gays and women, the only anti gay stuff is actions. It is only immoral to act on it, not to be it. Pickup histories and read them. You certainly need to see who is the real bigot here. And if god given doesn't count for you, how about sentient right, or maybe you mean we can let fly with the nukes because if they have no rights then weather or not they are human they're only use is to die.

And another thing. There is a reason The United States has the strongest military in the world. The United States was attacked by Non-legal combatants in 9-11 and still our troops fight to stop the terror in other nations, By the Geneva Conventions The USA can drop atomic weapons on the terror supporting nations for that reason, it is also for that reason many captured terrorists are in GITMO, Non-legal combatants lose all their rights to due process under the conventions. The same rule applies to piracy in maritime law.

You idiot. You assume because I'm from Australia I follow Australian politics? You assume that just because I live here that I support everything our government does? How many Americans are actually Bush supporters, or even war supporters in general? Most are peaceniks.

Christianity? 'True Church'? Do you know how many branches of Christianity there are? Did you know that every single one of them is convinced that it's the true church? I've read excerpts of the bible, buddy, and the majority of versions condemn women for Eve's 'sin' and homosexuals for... I don't know, probably because the author was in the closet and bitter about it.

People do not have the right to overthrow the tyranical government of ANOTHER COUNTRY. That is a law that America has set for itself, and ONLY America has set for itself.

See, this is the problem here, not just with your bullshit about America's supposed right to help others when it's none of their business, but also the crap about the Geneva Convention, the UN, 'non-legal combatants'... You know who made all these laws? AMERICA.

I can't stress this enough, so I'm going to bold the entire fucking sentence. AMERICA IS NOT THE WORLD. AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN THE WORLD, AMERICA WILL NEVER BE THE WORLD, AND WHAT AMERICA SAYS IS NOT LAW FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD, ONLY FOR AMERICA. You Goddamn rednecks* piss me off so fucking much when you go on about this shit. Rights, laws, conventions... You make all these bullshit laws then expect others to follow them. You have conventions and make agreements with yourselves, based on your own cultural and religious beliefs, and you expect others to follow them. The instant someone breaks the agreement that you so egocentrically bound them to without their Goddamn permission, you put them on your list for future regime changes. You're a disgusting display of exactly what's wrong with America; an elitist, bullshit viewpoint that you run the world, that you know what justice is and it is the only true justice, that you know what's best for everyone.

News flash. If the entire world was more like America, the world would be a much, much, much bleaker place. I'm not saying America's terrible, it has its upsides, but just like every other country, it has its downsides. You are not perfect. You are not ideal. And to a majority of the world's population, you're not even preferable. To many people you're a disgraceful country of foul business, racism, and blatant favouritism to the upper class. You nanny everyone you possibly can (except for people who may actually need it), and you'd sooner award someone $100,000,000 for slander in a civil court case than you would create a decent pension for single parents or someone equally underpriviledged.

So take your bible. Take your regime-changing armies. Take your McDonalds. And take your constitution. And you know what you can do with it? You can shove it up your arse, and then you can light yourself on fire to burn every last scrap of overzealous, brainwashed, hypocritical, arrogant bullshit, whether it be the flesh on your bones or the paper and flesh you just shoved.

I will now exercise my OWN freedom, and completely ignore everything you say from this point. Good day, and I hope that when you get to the afterlife, whatever higher power truly exists is as merciless as your ignorance has wrought.

*I apologize to any of the decent Americans out there reading this. I apologize also that your reputation has to be so thoroughly tarnished by this very vocal minority that I am currently wasting my time on.

First off fine, don't read what I say, I couldn't care less, but I'm not about to let other people end up trapped with some of the ignorance you hold. Secondly America did not create the Geneva Conventions, we actually didn't even sign half of them. Third and maybe most importantly MOST AMERICANS do fallow our government, but freedom of speech as our constitution allows gives the far left media the ability to take polls and the stretch the data so as to make it appear that the populace doesn't support our leadership. I'm glad your country hasn't got a target worthy of terrorist plots else maybe you'd be more receptive to the fact that if those countries want our western culture gone, and are willing to kill them selves just to kill it, then we as human beings have the right to defend ourselves. Peace is a fallacy. There can be no peace without war, and if it takes a war to ensure that western culture survives then so be it. Just stop complaining that we are unjust in our cause because you may not think defending liberty and equality to men, women, blacks, whites, and humans in general, but we do, and we are willing to fight to keep those things alive.

List of nations with out wars on it's own shores in the last 50 years. Britain, France, Spain, Australia, Mexico, America, Canada, West Germany, and many other who I don't have time to list.

You named just about all of them, and that's a tiny minority of all the countries in the world.

Actually there is around 200 nations