Six Years Since 9/11

[innerSpaceman]

I can talk about it day and night. It really doesn't phase me all that much.

I love how George Bush spins bin Laden's recent taped message as a justification for the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq simply because bin Laden mentioned Iraq ... when of course the fact of bin Laden leaving a 6th anniversary nine eleven message is one of the great nose-thumbings the U.S. has ever received.

I hate to agee with the madman bin Laden (though almost dread more agreeing with the madman Bush) ... but he has a certain point when he points out that the acts of 19 men (and their supporting cohorts) pulled the mightiest military and world state like a puppet on a string to a self-destructive course change against its uber-alis will.


As for the 9/11 tragedy itself ... it's both tough and fascinating for me, because I have memories of living through the day ... and so many personal memories of New York in general and the Trade Center in particular.

But I try to put the tragedy into perspective, and not fall into the Americomorphic trap of believing it was any worse or more awful than any other tragedy of mass civilian death ... whether caused by bands of terror fuctards or by powerful warlords of "legitimate" governments.