Philosophical Questions For Everyone (Would Really Like to Hear From Teachers)

[M. Barnett]

Well, this will probablt get me hate ail, but hey, it's my opinion 
and I wanna share it, 'cause you asked.

While I do not agree with the comment made by the professor, and 
think if he wanted to say something like that it should have been 
outside of the classroom ... it makes sense if you think about it 
from a non-emotional, non-patriotic view.

A group of terrorists brought down 2 110 story buildings, a large 
wing of the military headquarters of the US, and had plans on taking 
down more when they were thwarted by some very heroic passengers.  
The amount of planning that had to take place to pull that off is 
mind-boggling.  From what we have learned from the news, many of the 
terrorists on the planes had been in the US for quite a while.  You 
can't learn to fly in 3 days, I can vouch for that.  The financial 
planning, the planning of the actions before hand, what to do on the 
planes, where to strike the buildings, what would happen after the 
planes hit the buildings.  

All this takes so much time and effort.  The fact that they didn't 
give away what they were doing.  The fact that for the most part, 
their plan succeeded.  I am shocked and appalled by what happened.  I 
did not know anyone that was killed or injured personally, but I am a 
firefighter and over 300 of my Brothers were killed, so don't think I 
am a horrible person, but the acts that took place, while incredibly 
tragic, were acts of sheer military cunning.  

So I understand his statement, and if you look at it from a certain 
point of view, it makes sense, but yeah, it was wrong to be uttered 
in a classroom.  SHould he be punished for it?  I think he probably 
haas punished himself enough.

Just my opinion,

Michelle <----who wants to kick just as much ass as most everyone 
else :)