The American :: essays research papers

At darkness I toss and turn watching my reasons action replay of people jumping out of the WTC, a hundred stories up. I realize back tears at every US flag fast at half-mast, at every sign of solidarity. I struggle to talk, to smile, to hope. Im explosive. My fury is the rumbling building my experiencet pumps jet fuel. My mind burns and tears at the walls of reality, and my piece crumbles. All that is left is a bent and smoldering fury and non a soul upon which to organize it. War. Our flag waves struggle. Red, war. White, war. Blue, war. I see war in our faces. I hear war in our voices. It parades down streets, it titles our resolve New War. I expect heard citizens call for war, my father de mand war, my country declare war. My cosmos screams war And then falters without a guilty people, without a guilty country, without a guilty religion upon which to wage it. Yet I struggle to find out an enemy we all struggle to find an enemy to rise against and crumble. I want to de stroy their cause, their existence. I want to rage. But I am left unaided to commune with my country, the world -- humanity. We weep amidst rubble and smoke, dying and fear. We weep at the tragedy we weep without justice.Do we strike? run out Afghanistan, bomb the Taliban, bomb countries that may have transgressed against us? There is our war Do we not have the greatest power in the world? Our might is legendary. Our power, beyond challenge. why should we entertain repose, even for a jiffy? Let us strike first and then consider Why find the Terrorist who wielded destruction on America? Are they all not to blame? Why wait? We know who they are we know where they are. So, allow us bring the mighty hand of America upon their doubtful heads and fracture them into a thousand pieces like so much sand in the wind. But is that not what we should fear? From one hateful group, we spawn a thousand. In one death a thousand stand furious, determined. entrust not their violence reap violenc e a thousand sight? And thus we will be forced to fight them all, tens of thousands, and one by one a thousand born.And should we believe that a single man could do so much? As if terrorism sprouted from a single soul whose removal would allow tranquilitys snuff it?