All of us have some index event that is etched in our memory.
For some it is 9-11, an anniversary that is memorialized each September 11.
We all remember where we were when we heard bout the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.
Just as the previous generation remember the moon landing in July 20, 1969, and before that the assassination of John Kennedy, that of his brother Robert, and later, the Rev. Martin Luther King.
Before that, another generation remembered Pear Harbor and the day that would live in infamy.
After all these events, it seemed that the nation went into a kind of collective shock, digests the meaning of the vent, and then marches forward again.
9-11 has been a little different. Politicians used it as a pretext to to launch an invasion of a country (Iraq) that had nothing to do with the attack. In fact, there were no weapons of mass destruction to be found after we invaded their country, hunted down Saddam Hussein and witnessed his execution.
Osama bin Laden was hunted down, found, and executed 10 years after the attacks on the Twin Towers.
Afghanistan was next, then ISIS. And the eternal war that started in New York never seem to end. It's been 16 years since the U.S. military entered that endless fray and there seems to be no end.
As David Max Korzen in th Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times wrote:
"Bin Laden’s objective on 9/11 was not simply to destroy the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Rather, these were the means to an end. Terrorists kill to induce people to alter their behavior, to force them into bad decisions or tempt a government to crack down on their populations.
In our case, we’ve bled ourselves dry on military adventures around the world.
Afghanistan is now the longest war in the history of the United States. A few countries over, U.S. forces are once more on the ground in Iraq. Our troops are deployed on every corner of the globe while their combat readiness declines. Aircraft crashes are up. We’ve seen unprecedented ship collisions and a significant rise in suicides among members of the military. Our veteran care system is ungainly and dysfunctional. Our international influence is waning."
In our case, we’ve bled ourselves dry on military adventures around the world.
Afghanistan is now the longest war in the history of the United States. A few countries over, U.S. forces are once more on the ground in Iraq. Our troops are deployed on every corner of the globe while their combat readiness declines. Aircraft crashes are up. We’ve seen unprecedented ship collisions and a significant rise in suicides among members of the military. Our veteran care system is ungainly and dysfunctional. Our international influence is waning."
Our new administration is now obsessed with North Korea, Iran and Syria and no one wants to look down that troubled path. At this juncture, if we certain of one thing it is that we can look forward to a future of war and human slaughter. Bin laden didn't do that. We have taken care of that ourselves,
thank you.
In Memoriam
Aamoth Jr., Gordon McCannel - 32 - Manhattan, NY - Dec WTC
Abad, Edelmiro - 54 - Brooklyn, NY - Dec WTC
Abad, Maria Rose - 49 - Syosset, NY - Dec WTC
Abate, Andrew Anthony - 37 - Melville, NY - Dec WTC
Abate, Vincent - 40 - Brooklyn, NY - Dec WTC
Abel, Laurence - - New York, NY - Msg WTC
Abraham, Alona - 30 - Ashdod, Israel - Un 175
Abrahamson, William F. - 58 - Cortland Manor, NY - Dec WTC
Aceto, Richard Anthony - 42 - Wantagh , NY - Dec WTC
Ackermann, Heinrich Bernhard - 38 - Manhattan, NY - Dec WTC
Acquaviva, Paul Andrew - 29 - Glen Rock, NJ - Dec WTC
Adams, Christian - 37 - Biebelsheim, Germany - Un 93
Adams, Donald Leroy - 28 - Chatham, NJ - Dec WTC
Adams, Patrick - 61 - Brooklyn, NY - Dec WTC
Adams, Shannon Lewis - 25 - Long Island City, NY - Dec WTC...
3 comments:
You should have died, Montoya - Gringo hater!!!!!!!!
There was good reason for going after Ben Laden and his pals in Afganistan, but we wonder all that could be won in the first six months. For the last 15.5 years we have wasted blood and money for nothing. There was been a long line of Generals who wanted to prove they could win this war. All have failed.
While many of us still remember 9/11 and the destruction done by the planes that struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the one taken down by the brave passengers in Pennsylvania.....there a lot of Snowflake Demokrats who now want to give our country and our culture over to Moslems and Sahira Law. Domestic organizations like Planned Parenthood have become associated with Moslem organizations in order to promote a Planned Parenthood policy agenda. Demokrats support accommodation of Moslems and erosion of our culture....just to make Moslems support a Demokratic agenda. Demokrats don't want to get tough on Antifa or domestic terror....in order to insure those groups support Demokrats. What have Demokrats done for us lately.....NADA. We are spending too much, we are giving away tax dollars wildly, our International leadership roll was destroyed by Obama. Demokrats are ready to give this nation away and have forgotten 9/11.
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