Responding to Ann's Post-9/11 Comment

On April 13 in class, Ann had made a comment about post-9/11 and how Mennonites said something to the effect of, "They did it to us. Let's stay the victims."

In my opinion, the Mennonites do not get to keep the name of victim. You just perpetuate the cycle. You are guilty because you, with your pacifist ways, will be allowing the enemies to terrorize the United States again and again, possibly giving us another 9/11.

The reason we had gone to war in the first place was to stop the terrorists. I have told my parents constantly that if we did not go to war, we could have had a million 9/11s by now. You are probably thinking that the war should be over by now. But there has been no relief in terrorists! The numbers are still most likely huge, possibly even larger than before!

If you want to look at how long a war has been going on, look at World War II. World War II had already been happening for a few years before we were forced to join. And it still took another five or six years after we joined the war for it to be over. So you're looking at probably a decade! Sure, the tenth year anniversary of being in war is coming this September, but wars take years. They are not over in one day. If all wars were over in one day, that would be either a miracle or just plain weird.

As I was saying, Mennonites do not get to keep the name of victim. I think that they would take on the name of enemy. Because Mennonites are pacifists, and they would most likely stand aside and let another 9/11 happen without fighting to try to stop it from happening.