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ORIGINAL: FunCouple5280

....Hmmm no....

How about this. Did US behavior make it a target for terrorist attacks? Yes. That is pretty easy to argue for. However, was all of that behavior intentionally negative. Arguably, No.

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Other than committing suicide or converting to a strict Islamic sect, is there anything you can do to please a terrorist? No.

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Finally, despite what the US goverment may have done, is that justifiable for attacks on US civilians and not goverment targets? No.

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The issue with all of this is that the school boiled down a complex issue way too far. Then they spun to hard towards their own opinion and ignored the fact that experts disagree tremendously on this all over the political spectrum.

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Don't forget , 9-11 took place pre-W rampage. While the US has been mucking around in the Mid-East since the Barbary pirates, we weren't half involved as we are now.

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And as fas as support for Isreal is concerned, well that is a totally different argument with a big set of consequences outside of the rest.

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This is beyond what anyone in fifth-grade should be debating.

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The where, when, who, how, and what is all that is important at that age. The why should be left till later in their education when they are less impressionable and more capable of debating the circumstances.

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Finally, despite what the US goverment may have done, is that justifiable for attacks on US civilians and not goverment targets? No.

Has it occured you that it may have been "tit for tat"???has the u.s. made any attacks that affected civilians?

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The issue with all of this is that the school boiled down a complex issue way too far. Then they spun to hard towards their own opinion and ignored the fact that experts disagree tremendously on this all over the political spectrum.

Actually there is not much disagreement that we are in the sand box for the oil. I believe there is a pretty large body of evidence on the net concerning why the "terrorist" did what they did

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And as fas as support for Isreal is concerned, well that is a totally different argument with a big set of consequences outside of the rest.

To ignore israel as a salient point in this discussion is hardly reasonable.

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This is beyond what anyone in fifth-grade should be debating.

This would be your unsubstantiated opinion

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The where, when, who, how, and what is all that is important at that age. The why should be left till later in their education when they are less impressionable and more capable of debating the circumstances.

If not now when?

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ORIGINAL: cordeliasub
I gotta say....I have trouble with teaching my kids that the thousands of people who died on that day deserved it. Just sayin'. I wonder if people actually believe that or if it is just the fun of being shocking and contrary.

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The third question on the controversial quiz was: “Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?” according to CBS Houston. The credited answer — which Sands’s son did, in fact, select — was (B.) “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro

There have been a few post concerning what schools teach, here is one that really gets me and it is in Texas? I wonder if any othe school board is a member of the Westboro Church?

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-school-backs-off-teaching-9-11-america-093412697.html

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If you Rightie foamers can't accept the facts, it doesn't alter reality.

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
A mere detail like reality has never troubled the Rightie foamers in the past, has it?

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ORIGINAL: TricklessMagic

Eh when it comes to Islam and terrorism I'll give my kids the reality of it all and let them decide. The Crusades were arguably a defensive campaign that turned into a fight over originally held Byzantine Empire territory.

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The CIA did shady things in Iran to prop up the Shah

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and the Revolutionary Guard engaged in wholesale murder and subjugation of women.

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America did shady things during the Iran Iraq war. America kept the Iraqis from terrorizing their neighbor in the first war.

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The second war was a waste of time and taught us not to put boots on ground at all costs but to feel free to blow shit up from afar. America helped the Afghanis kick out the Soviets who were murdering bastards that intentionally killed innocent women and children,

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and then Osama Bin Laden got pissy and decided to attack us while Clinton was too much of pussy to give the kill order when he had multiple chances.

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All Osama Bin Laden accomplished was getting far more Muslims killed then the 4,000 or so that died in the towers.

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We will have accomplished nothing in the Middle East when it is all said and done. The Islamic culture in its forms throughout much of the middle east with some exceptions (Qatar, Jordan, Arab Emirates, and some others I can't remember)

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is oppressive to anyone who isn't a muslim or is a woman.

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While Iran may have gotten looser on its laws, it can still murder people for practicing a religion other than Islam by its laws, and it still allows child rape and molestation in varying forms.

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Are there good peaceful Muslims, sure there are. Are 90% of Muslims likely just good people, yeah I can jive with that.

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But I'm not an apologist for America or interested in anything Islam.

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If the possible answers were ones that could have been given via essay and required explanation and a demonstration of logic, it wouldn't have been that big a deal as the teacher would have been grading based on the content of the essay, not the answer itself. Instead they just ignored the evil intent and nature of those terrorists and went right to putting all the blame on the shoulders of past generations.

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At the end of the day we all can't live in peace and we just need to accept that and either leave it be or duke it out.