Maggie has some nerve

Good for Maggie.

*Danny's not here Mrs. Torrance*

I think it is inappropriate for actors to make political statements such as that. It's not usually beneficial to their careers nor to the films they were hired to promote by their work. It is a free country, though, and if people wish to put themselves out there (at their own peril) they have that right.

I did not know about her statement when I saw the film; but her performance in the film itself was a beautiful job, with a very poignant scene at the end.

Is one of the great things about this country not, at least in principle, that people can express whatever opinions they hold without being "immediately forced" to do anything?

You happen to disagree with a position? Good for you. But an attempt to justify WHY you disagree would be far more useful than mere self-righteous indignation; - there really is not any useful way to respond to the latter.

Since we are not a communist country, since here individuals and individuality tend to be valued very highly, and never be sacrificed for the sake of the social good, the victims of 9/11 died first and foremost as themselves, and not as Americans. Thus, why you wish to subvert their sacrifice to further your own political views, or why you seem to believe that their tragedy somehow exempts America from criticism is beyond me.

Indeed, more than that - it is selfish and disgusting to exploit their misfortune by trying to wrap yourself in its mantle. YOU did not really suffer on 9/11. AMERICA did not really suffer on 9/11. Who suffered were about 3,000 INDIVIDUALS and their families. And Ms Gyllenhaal is not attacking them...

That is as to your calls for censorship. As to the claims you so object to, these can be looked at on several levels. At the most topical, it is a trivial TRUISM that America was attacked as a result of its behavior. After all, in any other case, Bin Laden would have had to pick the target out of a hat - any PREMEDITATED selection obviously has REASONS for it, whatever those reasons may be (i.e. Bin Laden could have chosen to attack us because he believed that we are abusing Muslims, or because he believed that we are helping the poor and liberating the oppressed - in either case our being targeted is the result of our actions). The only possible layer of complexity here is that what we may believe to be morally good, others may believe to be morally evil... But in either case, altering our behavior in particular ways would without a doubt make us less liable to attack (the only question being whether or not this benefit exceeds the costs associated with said alterations).

The last thing to note, however, is that targeting innocent individuals is NEVER justified. The people who died in 9/11 did nothing wrong, and thus did not deserve to die. If Maggie suggested otherwise, then her position is rather cretinous and can easily be countered (but with LOGIC in lieu of your sniveling vehemence). However, somehow I strongly suspect that she suggested nothing of the sort - that you merely lacked the "nerve" (nerve => neuronal cells => grey matter...) to fully grasp the intricacies of the situation and her response to it...

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But the United States was at fault in many ways for what happened that day. And not just for the countless warnings over the years (such as the first bombing of the WTC back in 1993, I believe) especially since leading up to the September 11th attacks the U.S. were attacked abroad numerous times but since the United States itself (homebound) wasn't really effected (not affected, for I am sure to some they were) they ingored the warnings.

The President even admitted back in 2004 that there were rumors that the U.S. was going to be attacked on home-ground yet the 'threat' was ignored.

Is one to believe that the U.S. people/government do not hold some fault in such a travesty? Get real.

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'...the ultimate ending, is war itself.'

I really cannot believe your willingness to just believe whatever you are told. Maggie was not saying that the US did it but that they weren't just an innocent bystander. Its people like you that blindly follow our government and believe everything you're wanted to believe that give Americans a bad name. Her statement meant no disrespect to those affected by 9/11 but only to say that we should look at the whole picture and not just this one event, bad as it was. I am SO tired of hearing how unpatriotic it is to argue anything when that was what America was built on. TO just roll over and listen to what our government and not check them at all is to fall back under tyranny. America HAS done some messed up things, and sure part of that may have been a stepping stone to 9/11, and to other countries we have done things as bad as 9/11 or worse to them, for good or bad reasons, so while the people hurt by 9/11 did not deserve it, all Maggie is saying is we should be more knowledgable on the subject.

It is VERY patriotic to question why things happened. Especially if it means preventing such things in the future.

i agree to a certain extent. however, i have thought about that tragic day since it happened and i still can't make sence of it. i wonder, is that wrong? will we ever truly, some of us that is, recover from that sad day?
our lives will go on, as they must. but the heros and the victims must never be forgotten.

vince

when you live in an imperialist state such as the u.s. things like this are bound to happen... obviously and unfortunately.

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