i have always felt so lucky to live in a part of the world where i never truly encountered evil, never really felt unsafe, never ever had to question my freedom. thank you, lord, allah, whomever, for my birth into Canada! now my fundamental foundations are shaken....how can america the great, america the strong be brought to their knees so swiftly, so powerfully? although before this day i admit to begruding america's seemingly untouchable might, it's blatant cocky confidence, i realize today that that self assurance is what created my own sense of security. if the pentagon, the trade towers can crumble awfully as they did yesterday, than.....i am afraid for what happens next. all those lives so quickly lost - mothers, sons, husbands, daughters, lovers, friends. president bush's words sound ominously in my head - "we will not differentiate between the terrorists and those who harbour them"....i am afraid that if bin laden is responsible, people already wrought by the insanity of the taliban will suffer further in afganistan. newscastors are calling this the third world war, a turning point, an apocalypse, and i really don't know what to believe.
