Where Were You That Summer of 2001?

[Swede]

The White House doesn’t want to hear it now, either. That’s why terrorism experts are trying to get its attention by going public, and not just through The Times. Michael Scheuer, the former head of the C.I.A. bin Laden unit, told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann last week that the Taliban and Al Qaeda, having regrouped in Afghanistan and Pakistan, “are going to detonate a nuclear device inside the United States” (the real United States, that is, not the fictional stand-in where this same scenario can be found on “24”). Al Qaeda is “on the march” rather than on the run, the Georgetown University and West Point terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman told Congress. Tony Blair is pulling troops out of Iraq not because Basra is calm enough to be entrusted to Iraqi forces — it’s “not ready for transition,” according to the Pentagon’s last report — but to shift some British resources to the losing battle against the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.

This is why the entire debate about the Iraq “surge” is as much a sideshow as Britney’s scalp. More troops in Baghdad are irrelevant to what’s going down in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The surge supporters who accuse the Iraq war’s critics of emboldening the enemy are trying to deflect attention from their own complicity in losing a bigger battle: the one against the enemy that actually did attack us on 9/11. Who lost Iraq? is but a distraction from the more damning question, Who is losing the war on terrorism?

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0225-23.htm

[billybob537]

1. Probably not the answer your're looking for

I was working as a Pipefitter at Distrigas, The Liqufied Natural Gas terminal in Boston. You want to see a bunch of people on the verge of a meltdown you should have been there.

[Demeter]

2. I Was Beginning To Break Even in My Business--Now Defunct

Thank you GWB for killing tourism, Michigan, and the general economy, along with a lot of people, plans, pensions, etc...

[kywildcat]

3. Summer of 2001- I was wondering why Colin Powell

was requesting millions in aid money from the congress-for the TALIBAN (yes, the taliban) to 'incentivetise' them to stop blowing up acient Buddhist sculptures in Afghanistan.
Still wondering why this doesn't make news.
http://www.rawa.org/statues.htm

[Vidar]

4. Burying my father & runnig a friend for office.