Sunday, September 11, 2011

9/11

On the tenth anniversary, my strongest feeling about 9/11 is that it was a moment of lost opportunity. I can't remember a time when we had more of the world's sympathy and good will. It could have been a time to win hearts and minds. Unfortunately we had a cowboy in the White House, who squandered the good will on a revengeful wrong-minded war against the wrong enemy, lying to the American public (unless he himself was lied to), beginning a spiral into fear and paranoia from which we haven't recovered. 9/11 marked defeat by our own hands.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

All the more reason to support the good man we have in the White House now.
I know you are disenchanted; I submit you forget how bad things can be / have been.

Best,
eric