Think of Peace Today

I'm guessing 90% of the bloggers who bother to blog today will mention 9/11. Here are my thoughts 5 years later.

For most Americans living today, this will always be remembered as one of the most memorable moments in their lives. Who isn't going to remember exactly where they were when they heard the news that Islamic terrorists,(mostly from Saudi Arabia) declared war on the United States? We cried. We were mad. We had the sympathy of the whole world, and we have tried to change the world ourselves. It's just any right minded person sort of has to question if we've taken the right steps in changing the world.

Are we any safer? Can we claim victory because 5 years have passed and there have been no more attacks on U.S. soil? I guess that is a victory of sorts, and I'm even willing to say that despite the shoe removals, taking of hair gel, and no-fly lists, and the fact that 99% of foreign cargo entering the US goes uninspected, that Junior and his militarist, industrial corporate bilkers of the American people deserves some of the credit for that. Have we been good or have we been lucky?

What I'm not willing to believe is the rhetoric that we're safer because we're fighting the baddies over there instead of over here. Iraq did not attack us, and even with Saddam in charge, I don't think they really ever had any intention of attacking us. This wrong war was the cornerstone of Junior's policy. We're spending $500 billion and we can't really say we're winning this war there, are we?

It's like the kid with the lucky penny that keeps tigers away. When you ask him how you know the penny works, he points out that he hasn't seen any tigers.