September 11th
So it is September 11th, 2005. Four years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. I have come to the general realization that 9/11 did not affect me that much. It wasn’t the first time, nor was it the last time that a tragedy of that magnitude befell our nation. 9/11 is fast becoming, to me at least, the date that should have united our nation under an umbrella of bi-partisan cooperation, the date that could have sparked a change in our oil centric foreign policy, and the date that we should have embraced our friends and allies. We have failed to learn from 9/11. Our government is more partisan than ever, our foreign policy is as driven by the need for foreign oil as ever, and we have no friends left. The reasons for all of this, well many of you will say “The President”, and you are right. Just don’t forget that it has taken failures in all three branches of our government to get us here, and it will take changes in all three branches to get us out.
