In Memorium
On this day, eleven years ago, men who believed that theirs was the only True religion captured planes and flew them into buildings. These men were Muslims. Their religion, Islam. Their reason, they believed America to be the most powerful, sinful nation on earth.
They believe this because we allow people to believe what they want. To act, how they wish. To be Gay, Pagan, Atheists, or what have you. We allow them to not only exist. We allow them to be free and thrive.
There are thousands, no, millions, that still believe we are evil because of this. We’ve fought two wars over ten years, and the only thing we’ve accomplished is spend a lot of money, a record number of low casualties, and handicapped our forces so they’re killed by friendlies as much as enemies. We haven’t rebuilt anything. We haven’t solved anything. The Middle East burns with the fires of Islam.
The ghosts of the fallen do not yet know peace. Bin Ladin is dead. But he was just a man. He was not the idea. The idea endures.
The dead are honored. But I am not so sure the dead rest easy.
The ugly truth has never been written so beautifully.
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Thank you for this. You gave me something here.
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When you come right down to it, the mess in the desert kinda looks like Vietnam and the Crusades had an ugly bastard child. It’s not getting any better either. Neither of us can claim innocence- not even this time when “they” struck first. Our government did some spectacularly asinine things in that part of the world well before those planes were hijacked. Doesn’t make a damn thing they’ve done right, of course. I begin to wonder if either side will be satisfied until the other is completely anhiliated. It’s been said and I agree that conflict and combat are simply another form of human interaction.
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