A profoundly disturbing account of how Iraq and 9/11 have become inextricably linked in the minds of many Americans:
A note of thanks to those who serve (courtesy of lies.com)
“To me, those troops were there to avenge the murder of my husband and 3,000 others.”
This woman’s grief at the loss of her husband is only natural. But how our national grief and anger over 9/11 has mutated into national insanity is the real tragedy of that day.
Yes it’s insane, but the 3,000 people dead is still the tradgedy. It’s possible to be too academic about this.
Both are needless tragedies. 3,000 dead of numerous nationalities form September 11. 10,000 + dead each in Iraq and Afghanistan due to vengeance, oil and the need for high poll numbers.
I think the world would be better off if everyone approached problems with the innocence and logic of a 6 year old child. Seriously. I am so tired of it. People bomb our cities, we do things that anger them…we placate them, they win through violence. Or we do nothing, no solutions there either. Politics only divide peole into a handful of groups that can’t stand eachother… Groups use religion as an excuse to destroy eachother, when the idea of religion could be beautiful, and is so similar accross eachother when looked at in a logical and peaceful perspective.
It’s just insane. The whole world needs to come to a greater understanding about why we’re all here, and basically chill. Until then, I don’t see anything changing. All of the political back and forth, pointing fingers, it’s all like moving a couple pieces of change between two pockets. I don’t see us getting anywhere anytime soon.
I think we’d be seriously better off if we handed the world over to kids. I know Jacko gets a lot of flak about his affinity for spending time with kids, but seriously. Kids are smarter, and would probably make better decisions than any adults armed with all this knowledge about politics, religion, money, violence…blah blah blah. does that make any sense? I think they’d operate on the simple rules they grow up with, be polite to others, treat others as you’d like to be treated, forgive others without judgement.
Why do so many adults and so many of our leaders(on both sides of the isle, and every corner of this planet) forget these simple rules?
As a world society, we are SO FAR from those simple ideas that all this debate, this tragedy vs. that tragedy, etc. seems like moving ahead an inch, when we’re 1.3 trillion light years from where we need to be. Perhaps the inherent flaws of being human beings will prevent us from achieving a world-wide enlightened state. I hope not. Right now, society is to busy shouting in every direction to even come close to spreading a little peace and quiet on this planet.
Hand the world over to kids…maybe not. My 4th graders read from their writing journals today. The most popular story, which almost got a standing ovation from the whole class, involved blowing up monkeys in the rainforest with grenades.
If our foreign policy were based upon American survival and prosperity instead of American hegemony and pride, we’d all be a lot safer. We’re there to show them fuckin’ ragheads what’s what — just ask any average American, any average enlisted man. We’re there for vendetta and nothing else. The problem is that we have to stay there and help nail the pictures back on the wall to make sure that we look like a good husband. This smacks of old-school marriage counseling: you can beat her, but you can’t leave her.
It’s fucking sick.
I didn’t beat my wife, and she left me. Sorry – off topic. The whole thing sucks.