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what do you hope to accomplish?
if you are trying to tell other americans how long they should grieve and that it's time to move on, i think your open letter is best placed in your own personal diary or blog
if the purpose is to persuade people that the gov't can never be of help, then stop, put down your pen, and go no further
a man in my parish was killed in 911, it could have been prevented by gov't very easily if * had shared the information he received on aug. 6, 2001 and warned the airlines to be very, very super-duper cautious of their screening, and if they had ANY doubts, to hold up the plane or the pax until the screening could be completed, instead, he allowed the media to go on its campaign all summer of writing articles about "ain't it awful" about plane delays -- so the emphasis was put on airlines by faa to force them to do things in a hurried manner to get their numbers of "on time" departures up, instead of putting the onus on the airlines not to take off unless it was safe to do so
another example
i know 3 people killed in katrina, so don't even bother to put me in the category of "most americans" don't know anyone killed and therefore shouldn't care, here we have a clearcut case of the gov't can do something to help, THEY CAN BUILD THE DAMN LEVEES AND DO IT TO SPEC THIS TIME just for starters
fear is a healthy emotion when used properly, if the army corps of engineers had feared accountability when it was discoverred the levees were not built to spec, there might be 1,100 people alive today -- or more, the bodies have not all yet been recovered
if * had felt a twinge of fear and taken the cia's memo seriously abt bin laden's plans, a short talk with some airline ceo's and i guarantee one or more of those planes would have never taken off, hell, some of the hijackers were actually identified as potential problems but not being warned to err on the side of safety, they were allowed to continue, and so 3,000 died
i guess i'm saying i don't see the point of the letter
identify what you want to achieve and then we can offer a better critique
it is cheap and easy to say "fear is bad" but in many situations fear is quite healthy
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