In Memoriam
September 11th, 2001
On September 11th, 2001 approximately 3,000 people died and the individual most responsible is still at large – why?
In the intervening seven years we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars, trampled on people’s rights, created huge new government bureaucracies, and can’t respond as well as the third world to a natural disaster.
Richard Clarke: “Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you. We tried hard. But that doesn’t matter, because we failed. And for that failure, I would ask, once all the facts are out, for your understanding and for your forgiveness.“
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I see nobody has commented yet, unsurprisingly. What can one say that hasn’t been said already?
It’s a tragedy that should never have happened. But it did, and the past cannot be changed. I simply hope people have, or at least will have, learned the right and appropriate lessons to give some meaning to all those who have lost their lives, and those who are still paying the price.
RIP.
Too many people still don’t understand what happened or why, and the country has lashed out in fear, anger, and pain. When people finally figure things out, the reaction won’t be pleasant.