9-11 again and again
It is the five year anniversary of 9-11, and what have we learned? Possibly nothing. Here's our very incomplete list of what we should have learned by now:
The FBI may not have talked with the CIA...
and neither talked with the INS...
Bush may have ignored all warnings...
airport security may have been left in the hands of minimum wage temps to save the airlines some more money...
the Taliban may have harbored Al Queda within their tenuously secured borders of Afghanistan...
Osama may have drawn up the plans and given the orders...
...but, the 19 men who cooperated with each other to commit massive acts of terrorism are the ones most responsible for the events of September 11.
Understanding their motives could be the most important step in preventing future attacks.
However many religious maniacs believe their gods direct them to kill, very very few of these people actually follow through in maintaining the murderous directives of their psychotic gods.
Understanding this phenomenon could be helpful in preventing future attacks.
Giving guns and training and shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft rockets to radical Muslims in Afghanistan who were absolutely known to slaughter teachers for their book-learning and to torture and kill women for being women was, as it turns out, not preferrable to godless Communism.
Religion kills.
George Bush was in fact the only human being on the planet who, once he was told of the terrorist attack, didn't gasp and run to find out more information.
There are greater evils in the world than Presidents who freeze up in moments of crisis.
No matter how badly a politician or political party may clusterfuck the country, war wins elections.
The quickest and most sure way to effectively destroy any lingering worldwide goodwill towards your militant, prosperous country is to invade a defenseless third world country whose only source of revenue is its rich oil fields.
When the country who owns a significant amount of your national debt and floods your trade deficit with cheap goods is a corporate dictatorship who regularly threatens its neighbors and possesses and tests massive quantities of weapons of mass destruction, then nobody can take seriously any claims to democratizing the Middle East, one oil field at a time.
The blood of Iraq will not protect us.
Religious sociopaths won't stay bumbling and incapable forever.
The evils of religion will not be abated by more religion.
After the untold millions who have been killed intentionally or unintentionally around the world through the evil militarism and global strategy of the United States government's foreign policy in the last 100 years...
...3,000 dead Americans is still unforgivable.
