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September 11, 2006
9/11 posting:
5 years and 1 day ago I, and the rest of my classmates, literally laughed at the idea that the United States would ever again be involved in a serious war. Or at least, never in our lifetimes. 5 years ago, my second thought was not nukes, oh god please not nukes. My first thought, of course, was a very hazy why would Bay Area traffic guys be talking about the Pentagon being on fire?...
That day, and in the days that followed, there built within me a rage. Osama done it. Osama must die. That rage burns within me still. In one outrageous moment, Osama slaughtered thousands of my fellow Americans. In years to come he would butcher hundreds of my fellow human beings. Their crime—our crime—was and is to live in a culture of Choice. Atheists, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims... Zoroastrians can all live here without taking up arms to defend our gods. Osama hates that...
That rage has turned again and repeatedly to disgust. Not merely at bin Laden-- that rage will never go away—but my disgust is reserved for our political leadership. 10 years ago Bill Clinton created a CIA group to find bin Laden. A couple months ago George Bush disbanded that group...
Terrorism is a tactic employed by the weak against strong democracies. As long as there are strong democracies and weak non-democratic entities, there will always be terrorism. Winning a war against this tactic is well neigh impossible. Finding bin Laden, trying him for his crimes, and executing him is entirely possible. George W. Bush, and the Republican party have shown no evidence that they want bin Laden’s head on a pike. And so I’m pissed...
Posted by Andrew at September 11, 2006 06:06 PM