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“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.”
–J. Ruth Gendler
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Sept. 12, 2001: We’ll go forward from this moment
That didn’t last long.
The needless war in Iraq and all that has followed, not only unfunded but waged concurrent with tax cuts, unprecedented in wartime, certainly contributed to the economic woes we face, even if the greed and recklessness our own elite financial class, who contributed nothing during the wars, bears the greater responsibility.
All in all, Bin Laden had every reason to take pleasure in the what has become of us in the post 9/11 world. We are considerably poorer and more divided, burdend with crumbling schools and infrastructure, less freedom and fewer guaranteed liberties due to precisely the increased fear the writer says wasn’t achieved. Anti-Muslim rhetoric from public figures has become as virulent as the racism and anti-Semitism that preceded it.
The biggest blows to his cause came not from our reacting by invading Iraq, which recruited thousands to it, but from ordinary people in Egypt and Libya showing that there is an alternative to El Qaeda for those who hope to end oppressive dictatorships, often supported by the west.
The bringing together was remarkably short-lived. First responders are still being denied needed health care in spite of being haled as heroes. Vets are still struggling for treatment and jobs in spite of all the magnets declaring support and ground zero still isn’t rebuilt. I’d say the triumphal tone of the article is more than a little off base.
While we honor the true heroes and mourn the victims, the reality of the results of that day bear little resemblance to this presentation of them. The described silver lining is largely non-existent.
should have been spent:
Do you have any of your own?
Some are sponges, some are faucets. I’m more of a sharing sponge. Problem with that?
But didn’t provide a link to the content.
I DO have a problem with that.
Now what do YOU yourself think?
http://thinkprogress.org/secur…
What I think has been pretty consistently been contributed here over the last few years.
I first started taking part in CoPols when I was SO mad and upset with GWB and his crazy lies and anti-American actions. I have consistently been a voice for peace. Many have called me anti-military. I’ll accept that as accurate. The military is a brainwashed, indoctrinated bunch of well intentioned people who follow orders. I’m more about those who give the orders.
Some call me brave. I realize the popular culture reference. I also realize that JFK was brave to try and go against the military-industrial complex. My friends call me fearless. I’ll accept that, too.
As has been mentioned here, I survived 11 foster families that started at the age of 4 when I lost my mother. Since then, I have lost my biological father, my younger brother and my middle sister. There are three remaining of the original family of 7. I’m relatively young, but know loss, as well as you do. Mine is different. Even I can’t imagine yours. And my imagination is top of the line.
My ideas? They should be in a diary. But I think most here know me from my postings/sharings. We are deeply in overshoot ecologically, economically, population wise, resource wise, etc. The future, from every source I read, is fragile.
I have lived in deep wilderness on nothing but my wits, shooting and fishing ability, and gardening skills. I’m always ready to do that again.
Death doesn’t scare me or concern me.
I will do anything to protect my wife and children.
has been a disaster.
A decade of needless wars. The loss of so many of our freedoms. The TSA. No one this week has been touting how much more secure we are, quite the contrary. Trillions of preciouos dollars and thousand of precious lives lost or maimed. A culture of fear and division like I’ve never seen.
This countrys response was bungled in epic proportions.
With the non-stop cable TV news and full-throated right-wing radio, we’ve turned into a nation of wusses, scared of our own shadows.
http://www.slate.com/id/2302949/
A first look at the 9/11 memorial. Excellent news story/video with Scott Palley.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories…
the Flight 93 memorial dedication in Penn., it would be worth watching the speeches that will surely be posted. President Bush’s sincerity, President Clinton’s ability to grasp the moment and VP Biden’s close are well worth watching when they are put on-line. Even Chris Mathews (MSNBC) was subdued at the end by the genuine solidarity that totally lacked any political partisanship.
and that was really nice to see
Woman fights post-9/11 discrimination.
If we had a million more like her, the post-9/11 world would be a better place for everyone. I was bowled over by her strength, sincerity, kindness, and grace in this video.
It puts it into “street” context like no other I’ve seen. Good one.
A excerpt from the speech that President Kennedy was to deliver in Dallas the day he was shot.
On Hallowed Ground
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Just one of so many stories from 9/11 but one that has words to remember.
http://dont-tread-on.me/a-deca…
Really, why should anyone read this?
(Frankly, I was unable to read it through, what with the godawful and excessive use of bold and italics and clever quotes. Then there is all the flashing ads for gold and survival gear. I don’t stay long on websites or TV & radio programs or pages in the newspaper whose primary purpose seems to be selling me crap I don’t want or need.)
What I got from the brief bit I read was that this was a diatribe by yet another under-achiever trying to pawn his failures off on “the system.”
The piece appears to be all about the author (and fellow conspirators who have similarly failed to meet their potential but want to blame their failures on faceless supposed conspirators that must be part of “the system.”) I don’t see that it is likely to teach me anything about where we’ve been, where we could be going, or even any deeper understanding about who we are.
This author comes across, to me, as yet another individual who lacks ability to empathize, but does know how to play the victim card. Even though he lacks empathy, and probably any professional expertise, he has a very inflated conception of his skills to psychoanalyze others.
In other words, this author comes across as a standard issue tea partier.
Again, I ask, brave Sir Robin, why do you think anyone should take even a few seconds on this crap?
I think the message about how fear drives us to a herd mentality, and how casus belli are so regularly used to justify wars and so effectively flame the publics passion for wars, is an appropriate use of space on this 10th anniversary of 911.
“This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine;
this is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine:
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
“My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine:
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.”
(From the Finlandia hymn)
seem to think that it’s unpatriotic to acknowledge that other people love their countries as much as we do, are as justified as we are in doing so and that their hopes and dreams are as meaningful and count as much with God, if you are a believer, as do ours. Even sadder than that, we have those who think that only parts of our own country are “God’s country” and legitimately American, with everything outside of that tiny parochial sphere being other, inferior, to be feared and viewed with enmity.
But love and patriotism need not be viewed in zero sum terms. What a lovely hymn.
all it takes is a little foreign travel and you find people just as happy, just as much in love with their way of life, and, even if many don’t enjoy the same gun rights that we enjoy, they feel just as free as we proclaim we are.
could shift emphasis from looking back to our losses,not that that hasn’t been right and fitting these past ten years, to turning to the future and honoring the day, the victims, the survivors and the heroes by vowing to nurture all that the world’s people have in common and that can bind us together in peace and good will; our essential humanity, love of our beautiful world and dreams of good lives and a good future for all of our children.
Maybe it’s just me.
that we should think of all of our personal losses, all of our county’s losses (on 9/11, in Vietnam and Korea, in the World Wars, in the Civil War, etc), and all the world’s losses in violent conflict, and in other ways. And by keeping these losses in mind always, perhaps we can find ways to move toward more commonality and less conflict – and fewer losses from violence. It may be more of a challenge than humankind is capable of meeting, but I believe it’s worth striving for.
I merely suggested an emphasis on renewal.
Thanks for posting.
One of the issues discussed above in the “everyone should read” post of mine is how, in order to go to war, whole groups of people must be dehumanized and demonized. Your wonderful hymn speaks against that.
I will save it.
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