NEWS JUNKIE POST
Sep 11, 2009 at 11:44 am9/11 Is Still Used To Justify Endless Wars 8 Years Later
Today, commemorations for the 8 years anniversary of the 9/11 attacks were held in New-York and Washington DC. The somber day of 9/11/2001 still has a deep impact on all of us, and on America’s collective psyche.
President Obama paid tribute to the victims in a speech at the Pentagon.
“No turning of the seasons can diminish the pain and the losses of that day. No passage of time, no dark skies can ever dull the meaning of this moment. Let us renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still. In pursuit of Al-Qaeda and its extremists allies, we will never falter,” said President Obama.
The consequences of this tragedy, and the vicious circle of retaliations in its aftermath have changed world affairs forever. It is not a coincidence that Al-Qaeda picked the World Trade Center twin towers in its brazing attacks against America, it was just a first salvo targeting the very symbol of America’s financial power and prosperity.
In retrospect, it is pretty obvious that Al-Qaeda’s goal was to get America to commit to endless wars in order to bankrupt the US economy. Since last year global economic meltdown it has become hard to deny that Al-Qaeda’s long term strategy has worked. The World Trade Center towers collapsed in a few hours, but 8 years later the US is still committed to the war in Iraq & Afghanistan with no end in sight, and further bleeding the shaky American economy.
Just like the Bush administration did 8 years ago, the Obama administration is still using the tragedy of 9/11 to justify the never ending wars. How much longer can this argument be used? How much longer do we want to live in a state of fear and paranoia? More and more Americans are starting to do the math by linking our current economic crisis with the catastrophic military spending triggered by the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, and are wondering if any of it was worth it.
Great article.
Most Americans don’t seem to question whether all this suffering and death and expense has produced any benefit at all to the citizens of this country.
It is even more probable that most Americans haven’t stopped to weigh any benefits accrued from the endless war against the suffering and expense that it has cost.
Well I have thought about it and come to the conclusion that the endless war has not produced a single benefit to the American people. After a trillion and a half dollars and over a million deaths, we still haven’t even captured Osama bin Laden. We can’t find Aiman al Zawahiri. Iraq is set for civil war. The Afghans are almost to the point that they were in the 1840s when the whole population rose up against Elphinstone’s occupation and slaughtered every English man, woman and child (one man eventually got out alive).
The endless war has alienated us from the Muslim world. The reaction against our wars of aggression helped the hardline Islamist gangsters come to power in Iran. The war posturing that has come from the militarization of our foreign policy has ruined what had been a productive relationship with Russia.
6000 American soldiers are dead. Many many thousands are permanently wounded in body, mind and spirit.
The country is in the midst of the worst recession since the Great depression and it is not going to get better because we are going to continue these wars!
We have not garnered any benefit yet, why are we going to continue to kill and maim and die and abuse the future taxpayers?