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| Eleven Years |
| 2012-09-12 |
| by Sarah Hoyt Has it really been eleven years? It was a beautiful day. I remember that. I got up to check email, and the AOL homepage had something about a plane flying into a building. I thought it was a goofy thing, like that idiot who had earlier flown into -- was it the Empire State Building? -- in a small plane. It was a beautiful morning, and I had a kid to take to school. His older brother could walk on his own the five blocks to elementary, but Marshall -- in Kindergarten -- went in an hour later, and at any rate was too little to walk alone. (And too sleepy. I used to get him up, bathe him, shovel breakfast into his mouth and walk him to school and if I were very lucky, he'd wake up when we got there.) So I walked him to school, waited till the teacher took him in and walked back home, under a cloudless sky, across our little mountain village, looking forward to our writers' group meeting that Saturday, feeling financially stable for the first time in my adult life (I'd just sold my first book) and thinking "This is when we reached adulthood. From now on, it's the easy part. Things will only get better." When I got home, I went to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee before going up to write. And the phone rang. It was Rebecca Lickiss and she was screaming for me to turn on the news. ...And part of me thinks of the psychological twisting that has taken place since then: people who blame their own country for the actions of barbarians; people who kowtow to the barbarians and claim to be multiculturalists because that sounds so much better than vile cowards; people who think that a country the size of ours, as wealthy as we are should do nothing to deter attackers because we'd be protected by our halo of purity and goodness. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 I Agree Tipper. Saudi Arabia has caused/funded intolerance in Pakistan,Egypt,Balkans,Libya,Sudan,Nigeria,Thailand,Chechyna etc etc.Now they are looking to take over Syria and fund the most extreme/intolerant mosques in the West. The West need to be less reliant on their oil so we can bankrupt this hell of a country. |
| Posted by: Fester Clunter7205 2012-09-12 17:23 |
| #7 I would reverse that order. I've been saying it for years "Anybody serious about WOT, would start by exterminating Saudi Royal 'family'". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-09-12 15:49 |
| #6 Countries that need sorting asap are Pakistan,Iran Govt,Eygpt and Saudi Arabia in that order! I would reverse that order. I would go for the money men first who finance the the training of these fundamentalist thugs. The largest direct funder of radical islamic terrorism in the world is Saudi Aramco the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. Factored into the price of every barrel of crude oil sold is a levy of US$1.00 which is donated to the Islamic Boarding School of Aramco's choosing. They only fund Boarding Schools that preach their sick brand of Islam, Wahhibism. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-09-12 15:40 |
| #5 Totally agree Water Modern.Bush and Cheney say they were duped by Perv re AlQ/ISI escaping Kunduz. Pakistan was the enemy pre 911 and are still the enemy post 911. Countries that need sorting asap are Pakistan,Iran Govt,Eygpt and Saudi Arabia in that order! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2012-09-12 12:33 |
| #4 And after 911 why the Iran/Pak were permitted rescue of AQ forces in Kunduz has never been explained. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-09-12 10:13 |
| #3 In all the years since D-Day, there are three occasions when the president failed to go to the D-Day Monument that honors the soldiers killed during the Invasion. The occasions were: 1. Barack Obama 2010 2. Barack Obama 2011 3. Barack Obama 2012 For the past 68 years, all presidents, except Obama, have paid tribute to the fallen soldiers killed on D-Day. This year, instead of honoring the soldiers, he made a campaign trip on Air Force 1 to California to raise funds for the upcoming election. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-12 08:37 |
| #2 911 still pisses me off. I still don't think we have had a full accounting for those complicit in 911. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-09-12 07:52 |
| #1 Go read the whole thing. I found the concluding paragraphs (starting with Flight 93) particularly touching. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2012-09-12 06:49 |