Hero, zero or terro :)

When was the last time the US govt reflected upon any of their wrong doings? Its always a case of moving on....similar to what the israeli foreign minister blurted against BBC, when BBC called for Ariel Sharon to be tried as a war criminal based on the Sabra/shatila genocide, when he retorted, "why do they have to bring up something that happened 20 years ago".

system · June 18, 2001, 10:06pm

The U.S. Government for a long time now, has been applying the policy of no reserve, no retreat and no regrets. It might have gotten away with that tactic uptil now, but this time around paradoxically it is the attitude of an American veteran of the Gulf War which happens to be the exact attitude of the U.S. Government towards Governments and Civilians of Foreign nations. The leaderships' growth determines the people's growth. If a bronze medalist veteran of the Gulf War can take the liberty of taking the lives of innocent civilians in his own hands, as a statement to the American goverment, then it says a lot about the satisfaction of U.S. government's work and policies towards Foreign nations in the eyes of an Average American, and also wether the growth is heading uphill or tumbling downhill. Is silencing every opposition the solution every time around? This incident reflects upon the ability of not a terrorist but an average American to choke the Government's dream. Time for Government to straighten itself up, otherwise, collateral damage will come from directly inside of the country, endangering the lives of innocents. What goes around eventually starts coming around.

Akif · June 18, 2001, 10:35pm

Damage may come from any of several avenues, whether from within or without, but I wouldnt count on the US actually learning a lesson from it. There are already talks of a movie on the Oklahoma bombing.....and the movie will be about several people who died...not Tim McVeigh. They wont highlight his past...they wont mention his gulf war 'heroics' as opposed to his oklahoma 'massacre'. Such times have come in the history of the US in the past as well...but its a bit too much to ask of the US to learn anything from it. The vietnam saga was the worst morale degrader ever for the US and its armed forces. But hey....the vietnamese that died, that were raped, or were massacred, are long forgotten. Yet a veteran with a single grazing wound is honored in a yearly parade across the country.