How much longer are we going to suffer watching America whine and play the innocent on Sept 11 every year? While the attack itself was horrifying and we all felt bad about the loss of life, enough already. Everybody but Americans recognized at the time that American foreign policy caused the attack. While nobody "deserves" to die, Americans are no more special and deserving of life than any one of the thousands of men, women and children who have died in the Third World because of US foreign policy. Even in 2001, America had to twist arms and use legal arguments and bribes to get allies to back it against Afghanistan. The US is the world bully and nobody is sympathetic.
Why does the US create this annual drama? Americans learned between1942 and 1945 that war was big business that made them very wealthy. Ever since then the United States has been addicted to its war economy. The same government expenditures in more peaceful pursuits would maintain the same or a similar economy, but different people would get rich.
After the Berlin Wall fell the US military budget increased while the rest of the world lowered spending. Why? Because the bully now saw its major adversary on its knees and the opportunity was there to run amok. Little did we know that Russia was protecting us more than America. War is big business – invest your children, Americans. After all, the value to thee conomy of your children is nothing compared to the comfort of the Romneys,McCains, and Kennedys and Obamas.
Thank God our home is Canada.
