9/11 - Look back. Then, look forward.
Y'know... I've spent the last month thinking about 9/11 in detail. Re-read articles. Perused my several DVDs worth of footage from that day, and the events which followed. Slightly reconsidered the offer to do a tour in Afghanistan. I've been completely out of the military for four years now, and started missing it from time to time.
It's so odd that I have so little to say about 9/11 today. Isn't it?
What do you say, more than has been said already? Now, five years after the strike against our nation, and thirteen years after the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center, it is a time to persevere.
More than that, it is a time to get smarter. We have not made our borders appreciably safer and less porous to infiltrating agents... what we have done is moved the fight to the Middle East and Asia. But that won't last. We need to institute changes which will decisively prevent an enemy from ever being able to do something like this again. Or worse. And believe me, it could be much worse. Al Qaeda wasted their opportunity to strike while we were sleeping. Instead of killing a few thousand, they could have killed a few tens of thousands. Or, in the case of a nuclear strike on U.S. soil, a few hundred thousand to anywhere more than a million.
I quess I had something to say after all.
We have two years until the next Presidential election. I am greatly un-pleased with some of the Constitution-endangering policies of the sitting administration, but at least they are doing some things that I have felt were decades overdue. We need to start thinking, now, about what we want our future President to do with this War on Terrorism. How it can be handled better.
If we [re-]elect the Billary Clinton duo, I predict we will tuck tail, shut ourselves inside our borders, and go back to sleep. That is the worst possible outcome I can imagine. We can do better than Bush, and we can do better than Billary. We need to do better, to safeguard our future from even worse days than 9/11.
It's so odd that I have so little to say about 9/11 today. Isn't it?
What do you say, more than has been said already? Now, five years after the strike against our nation, and thirteen years after the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center, it is a time to persevere.
More than that, it is a time to get smarter. We have not made our borders appreciably safer and less porous to infiltrating agents... what we have done is moved the fight to the Middle East and Asia. But that won't last. We need to institute changes which will decisively prevent an enemy from ever being able to do something like this again. Or worse. And believe me, it could be much worse. Al Qaeda wasted their opportunity to strike while we were sleeping. Instead of killing a few thousand, they could have killed a few tens of thousands. Or, in the case of a nuclear strike on U.S. soil, a few hundred thousand to anywhere more than a million.
I quess I had something to say after all.
We have two years until the next Presidential election. I am greatly un-pleased with some of the Constitution-endangering policies of the sitting administration, but at least they are doing some things that I have felt were decades overdue. We need to start thinking, now, about what we want our future President to do with this War on Terrorism. How it can be handled better.
If we [re-]elect the Billary Clinton duo, I predict we will tuck tail, shut ourselves inside our borders, and go back to sleep. That is the worst possible outcome I can imagine. We can do better than Bush, and we can do better than Billary. We need to do better, to safeguard our future from even worse days than 9/11.