Editor:
Setting out on my way to an early morning class, someone stopped me and said: “A 757 just crashed into the World Trade tower, and the plane is sticking out of the side of the building!”
I thought it must have been a joke.
Wondering, I joined a gathering crowd around the television and let my jaw flop open as America witnessed the second aircraft strike the towers.
I could only imagine the horror this explosion has done, first to the human victims, and second to our ever-complex political world.
Shocked initially, my response has grown to be one of fear, not of another rouge airplane, but of a rash or escalating retaliation on the part of our military and its Texan supporter.
I may be a little biased here, as my little brother is in his first week of Marine training, and my close friend is stationed in the Persian Gulf, but I am wary of any “punishment” our corporal, unopposed president may seek.
This blow was to the American capitalist psyche and should be taken with a deep breath and a serious evaluation of the consequences our opinions bear within democratic society.
Tiffin Brough Senior, Asian Studies