I am french. I've lived in Orlando from 1993 to 2005. On 9/11/2001, I was in France, and I actually received my updated american visa on that ever lasting Tuesday, while I was watching war scenes on tv. I was able to get back to my home and my friends the week after that, full of sorrow, yet so full of an incredible hope, as all over the world people were uniting to condemn the murderous acts and grieve. Maybe we would all work toward a solution?
Bush betrayed that hope. I still hate his gutts for that. All of them. I told myself in 2004 that I would leave America if Americans re-elected him: I moved back to France in 2005.
Fast forward to last week. Thousands of people were killed again in several african countries. We don't hear as much about islamist killings in Pakistan and Afghanistan: it is not news, because it happens every day. I feel anguish that I brought 3 kids into that kind of world.
Yet islamist morons killed 17 people, and here, we hope again to be living a historical moment.
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