Tributes are good but...
...it's time to face the inevitable. It is beyond to look away. It is beyond to look the other way of terrorism. It is beyond not to punish the people responsible for this disgusting display of cowardice. I see your view but overseas celebrations of our tragedy will and should not be just sitting back and accepting it.
to JiggyJ7LikeWhoa and poromenos
the "a-bomb" did save 1,000,000 military lives, and there were children on those planes so think what you like, but this was an act of war.
To the one who said this was a joke!
Listen you crazy ass afganistan! It was cowardly! They took over civilian planes and killed innocent people! that is cowardly! I know the US has also done some mean shit, but at the time it was what sounded right, what we thoguht would fix things. But not one of the people in that building was someone who chose to hurt the japanese, or to kill the others, they had nothing to do with that. Some of those people on that plane even acted heroicly to save other americans! To hell with all you afganistans, I hope the U.S. fucks you guys up, because if you weren't such cowards, you would take the U.S. on anywayz, you sad fucks! You dont deserve freedom!
My opinion
To the last reviewer: I want to make it clear that I'm on the US's side on this one. But the A-bombs on japan did not saves lives. that's just a weak justification for using it. Japan was on the brink of surrendering within the next 48 hours. secondly, i believe the root of the problem here is the US giving money to israel. Israel uses the money and power the US gives it to push around other middle eastern country. In fact, Israel is in the process of making a bomb designed to eliminate certain genes in DNA that would wipe out specific RACES in the middle east. In my opinion, the US is no better than the terrorists. There's a balance in everything and things just got even. That's the price we have to pay for being free. We need to realize that our high standard of living is a result of someone else's standard of living going down. I hope we don't see anything like this ever again. But i'm sorry to say that we probably will.
Poromenos, you're wrong.
The person who just reviewed has missed the point of so many things. First of all there WERE children on those planes, whatever the he** you've been told. Go review the lists of victims. The Hanson family, with their two year old daughter, made a last call to their family before being brutally and needlessly murdered. Second, the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrendous, horrible happennings, but if it had not been done, MORE than the number of people who died in the cities would have been killed in the lengthened conflict, and it was a response, not directly to the pearl Harbor bombing, but to the WHOLE SENSELESS WAR.
Grow up. The world is not a playground, and we are not little kids fighting over a seat on the swingset. YES America has done some truly awful things, but as these acts of terrorism show, so has the rest of the world. No race or country is truly innocent enough to self-rightously feel glad at these events. And to people who have made statements about America being evil "because it always thinks it has to be the leader" (yes, I actually saw this on TV, being said by several people), quite frankly, I have seen my fifth grade sister come home complaining about the same. I didn't like it till now, but if "All over the world people" are that childish and petty, maybe they DO need someone to hold their hand until they mature enough to run themselves.