It’s been a terrible week for me, the problems the US is facing has been swirling and twirling around my head all week….this diary is the result.
The horrific event of 9/11 was bad enough with the deaths and destruction of that awful day, but the five years since has brought us far worse in just about every area I can think of, all of it because this country decided to take an “offensive” approach. An offensive approach or an act of revenge that first of all led us to attack Afghanistan. Why did we attack Afghanistan, because we thought Bid Laden was hiding there and the Afghan’s would not turn him over to us, even though they said they did not know where he was and could not comply. So we invaded that country at great cost and resulting in the loss of many lives, soon a destabalized country which now is descending into an even worse state than when we invaded as I write this…
It was not long before that act of revenge was not quite enough for the bloodthirsty hawks in Bushco’s administration so what brilliant idea did they come up with next, oh while we are at it why not knock off Sadaam in Iraq, take over that country and really put revenge in full force there.
Now years later, the tally in the hundreds of billions, the decimation of our military almost complete, the lives lost almost approaching the loss of the World Trade Center, the lives lost of Iraqi’s most likely in the hundreds of thousands, devastation as far as the eye can see and more, much more to come, with no end in site.
These acts of revenge served in many ways to lead to the reelection of a man most unsuited for the job of leading a country in any case, but definitely unsuited for leading a country into war which we know full well after seeing the management he has provided.
This also led to the greatest deficit the world has ever known, with China our potentially biggest threat holding the notes.
These act of revenge has led us to torture in Iraq, to now considering laws to make that torture legal, to the complete scorn and derision of this country in all parts of the world, to abandon many of our rights and freedoms and to deny all those captured any rights at all. No matter if they were innocent or guilty.
Our country is now in shatters, our people go without health care or decent incomes, gas prices are many times higher than pre war, our elections a sham, our leaders bereft of leadership, our ports weak and vulnerable, our people divided worse than ever before, our whole country weak and vulnerable and on and on.
Now we are faced with probably the most important election in the history of this country, most likely our last chance to oust the lying, liars, an election we have no faith in whatsoever to be fair or accurate.
So here we are now, about to observe the day 9/11 once again, our Pres about to lay wreaths on all the sites on that day, and to give a speech to us in the midst of the showing of a movie giving a fictional account of it all and the contents of which are designed to blame it all on Clinton.
Are we safer now? That is the biggest joke of all time. Bin Laden in his wildest dreams could not have come up with a plan that would so devastate us as we have done to ourselves. This is what revenge has brought us and so I would ask, was it worth it.
I can only dream of what life, our country, our world would be like today if we, our nation had never sought this revenge, but I doubt that any other path would have brought us so low. Thanks Mr. President, thanks Mr. Cheney and Rumsfeld, thanks Congress, thanks to all the citizens who thought it a worthy endeavor and who kept this man and these people in office. Thanks a lot.
I’ll end this with a quotation “Revenge is mine, sayeth the Lord.” The bible thumpers should have paid attention to that.
I’ve said my piece, what say you?
Village Blue
