Four Years After September 11

[Plaid Adder]

You know, if you had told me four years ago that on September 11, 2005, I wouldn't even be thinking about the World Trade Center attacks because we'd have just gone through a bigger, worse, more horrifying disaster in which our own government, through its incompetence, corruption, and neglect, would manage to kill thousands of its own people, I'd have said you were crazy.

It's full of surprises, this life we lead.

But don't anyone think we have forgotten the Lessons of September 11th! Why, thousands of people turned out for the Department of Defense's "Freedom Walk!"

I posted about this event a few weeks ago when I found out that participants were going to have to register, and that the registration form asked for your T-shirt size. Yes, in fact, as the article above will tell you, they DID issue the marchers with identical red-white-and-blue T-shirts, as well as wrist bands (because armbands would have been just a little TOO, you know, Triumph Of The Will-y).

Four years in, you want to know what I think is the most important Lesson of September 11th? That we are our own worst enemy.

Can't wait to see what year five looks like.

The Plaid Adder

[DemInDistress]

1. I disagree...

The Bush Crime Family is America's worst enemy !!!!!!!!!!!

[bertha katzenengel]

2. I don't.

A lot of people had to vote for * in order for him to get close enough to get in by fraud. So we can't say he got in by fraud - or by Supreme Court - alone.

We -- the collective we, the citizens of the United States -- ARE our own worst enemies.

[samdogmom]

3. Please don't say "can't wait to see what 5 years will look like."!

We may not be here to assess the damages. Unless something is done about this administration quickly, I'm very afraid for our imminent future.

[wiley]

4. I disagree as well

The most important lesson learned is that we cannot assume that the leaders we elect care about anything more than pleasing their corporate contributors and abusing the power they have been entrusted with. The people of this country responded with an open heart and much generosity after 9/11.

Republicans shamelessly took advantage of the good will of the people to ram their agenda down our throats. There were no WMDS. There was and still is not a connection between 9/11 and Iraq. After the 1993 bombing of the WTC, what idiot but Giuliani would put the city's command center right there? We were very lucky we did not have flooding in NYC. The basin was not destroyed.

Some Americans are their own worst enemy. They allow the appointment of incompetent, untrained political cronies to fill positions just to collect a paycheck. They don't vote. They don't realize that despite their belief in the goodness of those they vote for, only a tiny number of Republicans are not crooked,selfish,evil sadists.