The Crime That Made Us All Suspects

I was disgusted when terrorism was treated like a war and we promptly bombed the hell out of Afghanistan. When the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building was bombed, we didn't bomb the shit out of Indiana, or wherever the culprits trained.

I think it was a crime, and should have been treated like one. A mass murder that we should have expended all our energies to solve - not a retaliation against innocent bystanders. This approach would have enlisted the help of the entire world.

So who is suffering in this war on terrorism? The Iraq people surely, but also ourselves. We are being treated as prime suspects, almost strip searched before we can travel. When we are robbed, do we stay in hypervigilance forever - and let it eat us up? Or do we go to counseling and get help to realize that good and bad co-exist and we have to get on with our lives. We forgive not for them (they don't really deserve it) but for ourselves - so we can get back to a time when we were not scared.