20-20
hindsight kicking in when it comes to the events of September 11,
2001, the day the Trade Towers in New York were destroyed by Saudi
Arabian men taking orders from the now dead Osama Bin Laden.
Most of
us had never heard Bin Laden's name prior to that time. He was
apparently a major player in the world of USA haters, but we
Americans didn't know it. US citizens were and to a great extent,
remain cloaked in naivete when it comes to the rest of the world.
The “them vs us” mentality still dominates American group think.
To be
sure there are new cracks in that group think. It was very apparent
last night with President Obama attempting to convince we the people
that it is again necessary to deploy the military option against some
other country, this time named Syria, for the purpose of....what?
Still don't have an answer to that question...Why and for what?
The
rationale presented by the President,...we need to strike Assad and
Syria to protect “us” from “them.” It's the same rationale
used by Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, et al going back a
couple of hundred years, leading up to the events of 9/11. When you
look at our war history, we've been damn lucky. Most other nations on
the face of this earth would be happy to be able to point to just one
incident on their land, as its lone brush with terrorism.
We the
people don't have a clue about navigating through a regular day of
living, wondering where the bad guys/good guys, hid the IED.
Killing
people...we the people are very good at killing people...we've got a
magnificent army, the best weapons, 12 WMDs for every person the face
of this earth, airplanes, boats, and now President Obama has given us
drones, unmanned death from the sky, fired by guys in a bunker
somewhere in America at a target thousands of miles away. No need to
look them in the eye when you kill them now. Clean, bloodless
killing. However, we're not so good at being killed...dying on our
own soil or while asleep in our own house or walking to the grocery
store around the corner.
9/11
woke us up to that fact. It ain't fun being hit back once you've
started something. And make no mistake about it, we did start this
fire and have been stoking it for years and years. It was only a
matter of time before somebody decided to hit back. 9/11 was a sucker
punch answer to our preemptive strike mindset. Now we've got to
finish it, bring it to conclusion before somebody decides to use the
really bad weapons in their arsenals, probably purchased from us, The
United States of America or one of our many government sanctioned
military corporations.
Our
government calls Saudi Arabia an ally, yet the virulent form of Islam
practiced by most so named terrorists comes out o Saudi Madrasas. The
men who flew the planes on 9/11 were mainly Saudi nationals. Osama
Bin Laden was Saudi. The Saudis have said they will take up the
monetary slack if America pulls its aid from Syria. In fact the US
just sold the Saudis 60 billion dollars in weaponry. Weapons that
more than likely will end up being used against us sometime in the
future in some unforeseen way.
We've
got to stop this merry go round. If nothing else, 9/11 has proven
that our attempts to play all ends against the middle and get rich
while others suffer and die, are coming back to haunt us. It is only
a matter of time before the world gets sophisticated enough to once
again use our own weapons against us.
We the
people seem to be waking up to this lesson, displaying overwhelming
disapproval of using a military option to seek peace in Syria floated
by the White House last week. Seeking peace at the end off a rifle,
does not work. It's never worked and never will.
There
are other options in the 21st century. It's time we used
them.
No more
9/11....no more war...
What I
said:
5 years
after 9/11:
http://skeptikone.blogspot.com/2006/09/911-looking-back.html
10
years after 9/11:
http://skeptikone.blogspot.com/2011/09/911-10-family-conversation.html
