The Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
We really could have come together - as we did for a few precious weeks after the attacks. But Big Oil wanted Iraq and Shrub wanted revenge for Pappy Bush being threatened and we invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 at all. And don't give me the "Saddam was a bad man" argument - there are scores of them we allow to live unmolested - and scores throughout history that the U.S. has even supported (Shah of Iran, anyone?).
This dark period in our lives will end when the evil-doers in the Shrub administration are rotting in the cold, cold ground.
Spot on mate. I agree with every single sentence, word and letter.
ReplyDeleteBack when Shrub and Darth were whipping up the war drums against Iraq, I asked a liberal friend in the US why they don't want to invade N. Korea as they have KNOWN WMD's. Never did get a coherent answer from her. My answer was that NK doesn't have oil, and that they'd fight back.
I also told another liberal friend that I'm going to learn French. She was aghast at that!
How they pulled the wool over people's eyes is beyond me.