9/11 Hindsight

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 21^st 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

Mitt Romney the Great, More like Willard the Pussy

Well, let's see...Willard doesn't want to talk about his record at Bain, despite the fact that he claims to be a gud bid-ness man. And he wants to make his family off limits. And he doesn't want to talk about his record as governor. And, he still refuses to release his tax or financial records.

So what's left, the Salt Lake City Olympics?

The maybe gay kid, he and  his frat boys bullyed in high school?

His missionary work in France?

His reasons for not enlisting to fight in the Vietnam war despite being such a war hawk back in the day?

His recent trip overseas to demonstrate his ability to piss off foreign diplomats while taking talking points from the billionaire casino owner who owns him?

How about we talk about those $5000 Brooks Brothers suits you wear, Mittens? Would that work for you? Is the new car elevator in your summer home a good topic?

Or maybe we can discuss your wife's lame ass dancing horse that bombed in olympic competition last week?

There is a line in everybody's bible which says basically, “you reap what you sow” and what you sow you get back ten fold. Here in the ghetto we say, “don't start nuthin', won't be nuthin.”

You will recall that Romney won the GOP primaries by torching all his opponents-throwing massive and negative ad campaigns against them until they dropped out, one by one. Now he is getting it back. . He figured he would do the same thing to the President to win the election, because “we the people” are stupid like that.

To that end, he's raised more money than the President has beaucoup bucks to scorch Obama. But there is a problem.

There is not much to scorch Obama with. He's been vetted so much that all the new rumors and gossip are coming directly from the National Enquirer, thanks to that fool Jerome Corsi. All of the Romney ads are lies, even republicans are attacking Romney's attacks, calling them lies.

Willard, on the other hand, is apparently as dirty as the day is long. However his major mistake was thinking he could stand before “we the people” in all his white anglo mormon privilege and simply tell us, “no.” I'm not gonna talk about it. NO, I'm not gonna share it with you. NO, I'm not gonna give you the information that is expected when a man or woman runs for president of the United States.

I don't care that Romney is mega rich. But I do care that he doesn't think enough of us to treat “we the people” with respect.

He has the money. He assembled his modern day prick posse of big money bigots and expects to ride off into the sunset with the White House in tow behind one of his Mercedes.

I truly hope we can burst that bubble.

Surely the GOP can do better than Willard Mittens Romney.