I watched “United 93” over the weekend. I guess the saddest part about the film is that no matter how well made it was (and it was) and no matter how much you cared for and routed for the good guys you already knew how it would end. Secretly a little nugget of me hoped they bonked the hijackers on the head with some fire extinguishers and leveled the plane back out to land safely to a crowd of cheering people.
We all know that wasn’t the case. What is so sad is we’ll likely never know what exactly happened. In some ways the entire day will remain shrouded in mystery for our lifetime. Eyewitnesses are gone and the survivors of the attacks are few and far between (or in the case of United flight 93 they are a group of zero). In some ways I sleep better at night thinking the whole thing was a well orchestrated government conspiracy.
At the end of the day though, logic kicks in. Despite how many civil liberties we have freely given up and how much money has been funneled into the war machine as a result of that day I doubt our government had much to do with it. Sure they turned a blind eye to some things but as far as a well crafted conspiracy…I have my doubts. Ask anyone who has ever used a VA hospital or waited in line 45 minutes for stamps and they will tell you how efficiently the government works.
Without some deep rooted conspiracy involving FEMA, the Masons and an alien syndicate, we have to accept the painful truth that it just happened. Sure it wasn’t a random event, but a well thought out and plotted attack using our own personal freedoms against us. At the end of the day it means these innocent civilians died for no reason. The attacks certainly didn’t win the hearts of minds of Americans nor did they drive us to embrace Islam. It did turn some of our shaky allies to run to our side and support us…initially.
In the end that was squandered completely. Instead of using unprecedented world support and sympathy to track down the one guy we all feel comfortable blaming for the crappy state of our post 9-11 world, we used this “Boogey Man” to justify occupying Iraq. Now thousands of American farm kids and Iraqi civilians are walking around missing limbs or worse yet buried for all eternity. I guess this is the foreign policy one should expect from a president-elect who never bothered leaving his own country.
We all know that wasn’t the case. What is so sad is we’ll likely never know what exactly happened. In some ways the entire day will remain shrouded in mystery for our lifetime. Eyewitnesses are gone and the survivors of the attacks are few and far between (or in the case of United flight 93 they are a group of zero). In some ways I sleep better at night thinking the whole thing was a well orchestrated government conspiracy.
At the end of the day though, logic kicks in. Despite how many civil liberties we have freely given up and how much money has been funneled into the war machine as a result of that day I doubt our government had much to do with it. Sure they turned a blind eye to some things but as far as a well crafted conspiracy…I have my doubts. Ask anyone who has ever used a VA hospital or waited in line 45 minutes for stamps and they will tell you how efficiently the government works.
Without some deep rooted conspiracy involving FEMA, the Masons and an alien syndicate, we have to accept the painful truth that it just happened. Sure it wasn’t a random event, but a well thought out and plotted attack using our own personal freedoms against us. At the end of the day it means these innocent civilians died for no reason. The attacks certainly didn’t win the hearts of minds of Americans nor did they drive us to embrace Islam. It did turn some of our shaky allies to run to our side and support us…initially.
In the end that was squandered completely. Instead of using unprecedented world support and sympathy to track down the one guy we all feel comfortable blaming for the crappy state of our post 9-11 world, we used this “Boogey Man” to justify occupying Iraq. Now thousands of American farm kids and Iraqi civilians are walking around missing limbs or worse yet buried for all eternity. I guess this is the foreign policy one should expect from a president-elect who never bothered leaving his own country.
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