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Jan Wenner has already decided that Bush is to blame...
Is it even possible to see both the left and the right meet in the middle to condemn this tragedy? Rather than finger point and play the blame game, is not the real issue how best to to proceed rather than beat each other up over whose perceived fault it is? Posters on both sides agree that terrorism existed pre-9/11 and pre-Iraq - Our actions have challenged it, met it head on, inflamed it, made it better, made it worse, all bringing us to this point: NOW WHAT?
It doesn't matter who started it. What matters is how we finish it. It is beyond ridiculous to see Red vs Blue America at a time like this.
It's not Clinton's fault. Or Bush's fault.
WE started it. All of us. Red and Blue. We drive the cars. We buy the oil. We buddy up to the bad guys and look the other way when we have to. We propped up the bad guys to begin with. Hell, we invented them.
And now, the playing field has been leveled, and we just look like the thug cops who beat Rodney King's sorry ass, taking advantage of the opressed.
The bitter harvest is here, so let's all work together and fix the ****ing thing.
We can't hide our heads in the sand, nor can we pick a fight with an exit strategy written in crayon on a candy bar wrapper.
We really need to evolve. All of us. Humanity.
And as much as we need to give the Arab Street McDonald's and cable TV, we also need to do our best to disrupt and extinguish the newly franchised disenfranchised.
(I just made that up)
If we can't evolve the planet, at least we need to evolve ourselves.
And why is it that people are only nice to each other after a tsunami, or a bombing, or Christmas?
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