We Got Him or Terrorism Prevails

[sonofsam13999]

I remember September 11th pretty vividly; I was living in my grandparent's house at the time, and I was listening to Howard Stern while simultaneously doing Independent Study work. It was really quite interesting to hear a broadcast airing in New York at that moment and to hear the fear, anger, and sadness in their voices over the atrocity that just occurred. I also felt that collision of mixed emotions as well as I was hurled into a patriotic fervor, calling out for the blood of arabs and muslims, and anxiously awaiting our government's response (retaliation). At the time I was much younger, and naive, and had no understanding of our policies abroad, or even the connection between the Taliban and the CIA. Much later I would come to understand the term: "Unexpected Long-Term Consequences" and how our foreign policy and Military Industrial Complex would make war inevitable, but also necessary in order to ensure the health of our state, lining the pockets of contractors, arms manufacturers, big oil, mega-corporations thus perpetuating this system of American mutli-national dominion over the world, and in places of geographical interests in particular. A world where 1 percent of the population owns almost as much as 40 percent of the world's wealth and the rest are left with table scraps to fight over like dogs.

Yes, we have rid the world of Osama Bin Laden, and I am happy there is one less fundamentalist muslim radical in the world, but how many more Osamas are out there? How many other enemies must we decimate in order to conquer the world of mass murdering fanatics (oxymoron)? How many more civil liberties must be restricted in the defense of "freedom," and "safety." Safety for whom I ask? Good riddance to bad rubbish, but perhaps we need to strike at the core of the problem in order to truly end "terrorism" instead of making it an inevitability. After all, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi