greg334
Veteran Expediter
I just finished reading Time's 8 years later, Osama Bin Laden is a failure piece and it is enlightening to see that we now have shed ourselves of the past and moving forward in to political denial. Amazing that everything changes back in November. We now have great leadership who will bring to justice the very man who failed.
The piece itself focuses on Bin Ladens strategy on how to expand operations of Al Queda through terror and what his goals are according to Time. Proudly boasting that Al Queda is no threat, it "has remained largely irrelevant" in the bigger scheme of terrorism.
The problem is that Time has it all wrong.
On this eighth anniversary of 9/11, I feel Bin Laden has won, he has proved what he set out to prove, America is weak.
Eight years later, we are a more divided nation, we are a more spiteful nation, our economy has grown through the government expansion by leaps and bounds and our government has shorten our rights to an extent through it's need to control everything not for our safety but because of a twisted political ideology.
Our country has been transformed by the few who wanted to relive the past, a hateful past. We now ignore terrorist as people who want to kill but instead try to understand their hate for us at the same time we were hating our leadership for protecting us. We justify their causes by removing their driving force from any and all descriptions of them so not to offend others - their religion - which is what they want us to know them by, their religion.
We redefined real home grown terrorist because they are now the new heroes of the country, fighting for the "right reasons" even though they are the same cowardly murderers as Bin Laden's followers have been.
But the biggest indicator that we are weak and that he won is the fact that our government now treats enemies, people who want to kill you your wife or husband your children and even auntie Clare, as equals to us again because of some twisted political ideology. Our protectors want to serve warrants on Bin Laden and tell him to show up to court instead of tracking him down and shooting him on sight.
We built a place that is far removed from our society and where they keep these people, which is now being closed because of the same twisted political ideology. The want to bring the very people who killed innocent people to the country so to try them in court so they can say they did it under the guise of some human rights treaty.
Bin Laden has won.
This all goes to show we truly have a lopsided government we ended up with by the same hate that Bin Laden uses and it is illustrated by one of the targets of Bin Laden - rebuilding the WTC site.
The freedom towers, you are joking?
Try the political towers.
Nothing can show the world that America has lost it's grip on reality than the mess that we have right there in Manhattan. Eight years on we are still complaining about the details, plaques, memorials and so on but it is no where complete. We all should have a say in it and that should mean one message, one simple and clear statement to Bin Laden and his followers - we can't be beat or terrorized, we will just rebuild it.
Instead it has become a New York thing, it has become a political issue, and it has become a dumb down version of reality. We no longer can talk about some issues, can't show those pictures, yep read the sign there, viewer discretion is advised because there may be something that upsets you.
With all of that Bin Laden has done what he set out to do, change us for the worst.
It is sad we have forgotten 9.11, we should be morning the deaths of our fellow citizens on that day not as a defeated nations but as a new beginning for the country. Instead I look around and see a bigger mess, no momentum left to fight for the real right reasons and Bin Laden is sitting in a cave on the Pakistani Afghan border smiling because he knows he didn't fail.
Remember 9.11
The piece itself focuses on Bin Ladens strategy on how to expand operations of Al Queda through terror and what his goals are according to Time. Proudly boasting that Al Queda is no threat, it "has remained largely irrelevant" in the bigger scheme of terrorism.
The problem is that Time has it all wrong.
On this eighth anniversary of 9/11, I feel Bin Laden has won, he has proved what he set out to prove, America is weak.
Eight years later, we are a more divided nation, we are a more spiteful nation, our economy has grown through the government expansion by leaps and bounds and our government has shorten our rights to an extent through it's need to control everything not for our safety but because of a twisted political ideology.
Our country has been transformed by the few who wanted to relive the past, a hateful past. We now ignore terrorist as people who want to kill but instead try to understand their hate for us at the same time we were hating our leadership for protecting us. We justify their causes by removing their driving force from any and all descriptions of them so not to offend others - their religion - which is what they want us to know them by, their religion.
We redefined real home grown terrorist because they are now the new heroes of the country, fighting for the "right reasons" even though they are the same cowardly murderers as Bin Laden's followers have been.
But the biggest indicator that we are weak and that he won is the fact that our government now treats enemies, people who want to kill you your wife or husband your children and even auntie Clare, as equals to us again because of some twisted political ideology. Our protectors want to serve warrants on Bin Laden and tell him to show up to court instead of tracking him down and shooting him on sight.
We built a place that is far removed from our society and where they keep these people, which is now being closed because of the same twisted political ideology. The want to bring the very people who killed innocent people to the country so to try them in court so they can say they did it under the guise of some human rights treaty.
Bin Laden has won.
This all goes to show we truly have a lopsided government we ended up with by the same hate that Bin Laden uses and it is illustrated by one of the targets of Bin Laden - rebuilding the WTC site.
The freedom towers, you are joking?
Try the political towers.
Nothing can show the world that America has lost it's grip on reality than the mess that we have right there in Manhattan. Eight years on we are still complaining about the details, plaques, memorials and so on but it is no where complete. We all should have a say in it and that should mean one message, one simple and clear statement to Bin Laden and his followers - we can't be beat or terrorized, we will just rebuild it.
Instead it has become a New York thing, it has become a political issue, and it has become a dumb down version of reality. We no longer can talk about some issues, can't show those pictures, yep read the sign there, viewer discretion is advised because there may be something that upsets you.
With all of that Bin Laden has done what he set out to do, change us for the worst.
It is sad we have forgotten 9.11, we should be morning the deaths of our fellow citizens on that day not as a defeated nations but as a new beginning for the country. Instead I look around and see a bigger mess, no momentum left to fight for the real right reasons and Bin Laden is sitting in a cave on the Pakistani Afghan border smiling because he knows he didn't fail.
Remember 9.11
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