CowardiceEssay Preview: CowardiceReport this essayCowardiceIn this article, Bush talks about how the terrorist that bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are viewed as Cowards. As the article states, ” The coward is not man enough to say it to your face and instead chooses to say it behind your backÐcan be associated with the sissy, the pussy, the pansy, and other derogatory terms.” President Bush is trying to say that Osama Bin Laden should have confronted him before he decided to highjack the planes. He also thinks that Osama has no pride and dignity and instead, had 19 men sacrifice their lives for their country. There was also a statement about how Bush sent cruise missiles from 2000 miles away; I think there might be a little hypocrisy on his part too.
In my opinion, I agree that it was cowardly for Osama to send his men to do the dirty work instead of him. But I think in their eyes sacrificing their life for their country could be the best thing that someone could ever do, and could be honorable. So the question asks, “Could the men who bombed New York and Washington, D.C. on 9/11 be considered anything other than cowards? The answer depends on who its being asked to. Some people in Afghanistan might say they were heroes and other might not. Some people in America might say they were bastards and other degrading terms and some might not. It all depends on the persons views but I think most would say that those actions were uncalled for and there should be justice. Overall I think Pres. Bush should have thought of another word than “coward” to describe Osama Bin Laden and the other terrorist because suicide bombing isnt cowardly at all but something else.
The quote in this context is a reference to the “Bush administration’s plan to strike an embassy in Sanaa as part of the war against the Islamic State (which al-Qaeda has been seeking for months with a bombing of Sanaa) and its failure to stop and not only strike Saudi Arabia, but for the Arab world, as well, for the US to do its own research with the US drone fleet and get good data. It also comes from an interview of the Saudi ambassador by a whistleblower who has written a book about the CIA attack in Yemen against bin Laden by a Yemeni. He writes:>I have been following the Yemen conflict for the past several years as it appears to be one of the main areas where U.S. policy has to struggle. U.S. policy is a problem of stability, respect for the principle of individual and cultural values, peaceful coexistence and sovereignty. At the very time the United States is fighting Saudi aggression, there is no question of the Yemeni citizens’ right to say no or to voice any form of political protest or protest by their countrymen or government. No nation can be defeated without the consent of the other nation. This is a serious problem that needs addressing. The US is very cautious when it comes to military operations when the consequences of such operations are devastating to people in the lives of human beings.
There are 2 other points where the quote is taken that are important to me and worth noting.