For me, every September 11 in this century has been a day of rage.
At first my rage was directed at the people who did this, and the people who directed them. In this I was joined by every American, and most people around the world.
But over time my rage shifted. Unlike most Americans, it did not shift to Saddam Hussein. It shifted, instead, to George W. Bush, to the people around him, and I acted on that rage. I worked for Howard Dean, and I accepted John Kerry.
Then my rage shifted again. For a while I felt rage toward my fellow Americans. I felt that we had let ourselves be duped, that we only supported the war because we weren’t at risk from it, that we had let ourselves be manipulated by our own ignorance.
And then it shifted again. It shifted to the so-called media. It shifted to Wolf Blitzer, to Chris Matthews, to David Ignatius, and to their employers, who insisted that their job was merely to ask questions when in fact their job was to ask knowledgeable questions and call bullshit on non-answers. If you’re just repeating what you’re told, you’re a secretary. I didn’t go to the Medill School of Secretarial Work. I went to a journalism school. And it enraged me that all the people with jobs refused to do them.
But recently my rage has shifted yet again.
Over the last year I have become enraged at the Democratic Party. They promised something they could not deliver.
Give us a majority, they said last year, and we will end this war. But
giving the party a majority did not give the idea of ending the war a majority. And as the year has gone on it has become evident that, for a variety of reasons, some Democrats were even willing to switch sides, then claim their critics were infringing their own "freedom of speech."
And now, my rage extends to the supposed Democratic candidates for President, to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Both are Senators who could, if they chose, try to lead their party to
a new course on the war, or at least fight hard for one. Neither has.
They make speeches instead. They do fundraisers with big contributors
instead.
All this enables more death, more waste of treasure, more
destruction. It will not change the course of Iraq’s history. Iraq is
not going to become a democracy. There are no ponies. Another F.U,
or two, or three, won’t change a thing. It will just leave more men and
women dead, more men and women with broken bodies. There is no honor in
dieing for a lie.
America is now treated by the world the same we treated the Soviet
Union. We’re feared, we’re hated, and our word is distrusted. This is
not George W. Bush’s fault. It’s not 9-11’s fault. It’s not the media’s
fault. It’s not even the Democrats’ fault.
It’s our fault. It’s your fault and my fault. It is the fault of an
entire generation, a so-called baby boom which for the world has been
nothing but a bust. We have no courage. We have no honor. We, and I include myself in this, deserve all the rage our children may later direct at us.
Interesting article. Just to add a comment: I will not forget the people behind 9/11. Nor will I forget the people who tried to stop them at the cost of their lives. These brave warriors succeeded in stopping even greater distruction.
The day that lives on as 9/11 should cause us to remember the hatred of those who oppose us and for what reasons. They don’t care about our political agenda or our politicians. They don’t care if you are a boomer or a buster.
They care about one thing only. That one thing would be destroying the “infidels” whom they select as the opposition to their belief system.
9/11 – It was the day that radial Islam brought their Jihad (their version of a “holy war”), to our soil. The havoc they wreaked, touched off a firestorm of retribution on their comrades, compatriots, and in some cases, innocent countrymen.
Why did this happen? The answer is simple and written by their scholars. Radical Islam and mainstream Islam are the fastest growing and oppressive religions in the world. Those not believing or standing in opposition to its advance are brought into forced submission. They hate all Jews and have the quaint, yet perhaps antiquated, view that America is a “Christian” nation. Therefore the hatred is unleashed on this country. And therfore the attack came. It was an attack borne of religious hatred against a perceived opposing religious nation.
What they don’t know is that America in the last 4+ decades has turned from the beliefs of its founders and pretty much thinks – “If it feels good and everybody consents, it must be good and worthy of letting be.”
We have fallen from our first love as a country and the sword of Islam will remind us. However, they have the wrong people. We are not a nation of Christians nor do we hold to any national beliefs. We are a nation which opposes itself. If Islam could see this, it would allow us to implode and come in later to pillage and plunder.
Interesting article. Just to add a comment: I will not forget the people behind 9/11. Nor will I forget the people who tried to stop them at the cost of their lives. These brave warriors succeeded in stopping even greater distruction.
The day that lives on as 9/11 should cause us to remember the hatred of those who oppose us and for what reasons. They don’t care about our political agenda or our politicians. They don’t care if you are a boomer or a buster.
They care about one thing only. That one thing would be destroying the “infidels” whom they select as the opposition to their belief system.
9/11 – It was the day that radial Islam brought their Jihad (their version of a “holy war”), to our soil. The havoc they wreaked, touched off a firestorm of retribution on their comrades, compatriots, and in some cases, innocent countrymen.
Why did this happen? The answer is simple and written by their scholars. Radical Islam and mainstream Islam are the fastest growing and oppressive religions in the world. Those not believing or standing in opposition to its advance are brought into forced submission. They hate all Jews and have the quaint, yet perhaps antiquated, view that America is a “Christian” nation. Therefore the hatred is unleashed on this country. And therfore the attack came. It was an attack borne of religious hatred against a perceived opposing religious nation.
What they don’t know is that America in the last 4+ decades has turned from the beliefs of its founders and pretty much thinks – “If it feels good and everybody consents, it must be good and worthy of letting be.”
We have fallen from our first love as a country and the sword of Islam will remind us. However, they have the wrong people. We are not a nation of Christians nor do we hold to any national beliefs. We are a nation which opposes itself. If Islam could see this, it would allow us to implode and come in later to pillage and plunder.