Yeah, true, on other forums usually a thread is automatically created with a redirect link to the new thread - not sure if vBulletin has this ability.
little den:
I'm going really well thanx, and yourself? My main concern with what has happening yesterday was that people didn't become all against muslims/middle east as a result - not sure if it WAS Al Queda, but it has all the hallmarks of them, or some other related group. I remember what it was like after 9/11 ("It was 11/9 where I'm from"), and with old Georgy boy going on and on about getting "them", which lead to the war in Afghanistan which I was against - I belive in exhausting ALL diplomatic possebilities before war. I will never defend the Taliban regime, nor Osam Bin Laden and Al Queda, but war was not the answer.
In the same way, I thought even less of the war in Iraq, which was built on lies, which steamed from what happened on Sept. 11. My concern is that this will re-ignite hatered of Islam after a decline in support for the Iraq war. I don't want to see any more conflict in this "war on terror". It sickens me to see people attack "us" - The west, but by the same token it sickens me even more that "us" - the west, don't be a little more objective and try and find the causes of why these things happen, and not just follow the "eye for an eye" idea which we constantly do.
Ok, we may or may not be smarter than those who are attacking "us", but regadless, we should be smarter in our aproach to what happens and be more civilized, and not degrade ourselves to the barbaric actions of those who commit terrorist actions. We need to look at who, why and how these events occur and find a solution to the cause, not the manefestations of what happens - ie the individual attacks which we need to get payback for.
Late,