I was not pleased to see celebrations in DC and NY. I hate to belabor the point here but the last ten years have been ugly. When I think about the authoritarian Bush 2 and his penchant for sadistic activity its pretty repulsive. In my opinion Bush 2 did more to grow Al Qaeda then to suppress it. Others have presented factual information that more or less proves the same point. War, torture, its not going to help. It seems to only help a particular segment of the population unfortunately trained to believe that mass undifferentiated killing revenge is beneficial.
At the very beginning when 911 occurred I remember reading Chomsky. Chomsky said way back then that the way to handle the terrorists involved in 911 was to use smaller targeted law enforcement rather than waging a war. It seems absurd to me at this point to wage a war against Al Qaeda. The problem is too many innocent people got killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. How is that justified, its not. Now look who ultimately takes out Bin Laden, a pin point Navy Seal unit. It wasn't a war effort that captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed either, he was taken by a small pin point enforcement group also.
This whole Bin Laden business is making me reflect back on Bush 2 and the whole mess gives me stomach cramps. Maybe we have a better perspective a few years removed from Bush 2. I would like to rid my body and mind of the debris from those years, yuck.
Al Jazeera: New Yorkers' mixed reactions to Osama's death
"I don't know how I feel about this," she said. "I'm a Christian, and killing isn't part of my beliefs. It doesn't bring anyone back."
"ROT IN HELL"
"I'm glad he's off the streets. I'm glad he can't plan any more attacks...But I can't celebrate this."
"It's a lot to process. It's all so sudden...it's not closure. And it drags up all these memories."
"I lost friends, lots of close friends ... and [this] will never bring those people back."
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The invasions were to make a pt. and to secure Imperial space. The 1st pt. was don't f*ck with us. The 2nd was about the Imperial space specifically OIL, Nat. Gas Pipelines, weapons sales and war profiteering in general. The more important thing was to create an Imperial Security State here and that was done. Today America is no longer a Constitutional republic with a democratic form of Gov't. Were now an Empire with a plutocracy / corpocracy in charge and tightening its grip daily. The democracy is increasingly just a facade of rich people electing other rich people to serve and protect their interests not the countries or its citizens. The top 10% own the Gov't at all levels and use it to further they're own personal agendas interests etc. The rest of the public is pretty much being abandoned to fend for themselves in an increasingly decaying infrastructure and economy.
This is the thing, Bush and his neo-con and corporatist buddies seized 9/11 as an opportunity to impose what you are describing. People were afraid and trusting and they got the wool pulled over their eyes. This is what we have been riling about for a long time now, because we saw it happening and wondered where was everybody else. We thought Obama would take care of it.
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