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One Year After September 11
One year ago today, at 9:12 eastern, we posted
World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked amidst the events of that day. Since Slashdot is really just a discussion site, I felt the most appropriate way to handle this anniversary is to simply do just that. I hadn't read those stories since the day it happened, and I really am at a loss for words. But I'm sure many of you won't be. And thanks to OSDN for turning banner ads off for the day.
The best way to protect the USA is to provide economic oppotunities and to keep routes of trade open. Can't do either of those things under the threat of terrorism. That the US is increasing its problems with the world by respinding to terrorism with military force is just another subtle way of blaming the victim.
Dawn of the Dead
One year after, many doubts have surfaced and the legitimity of the US president isn't actually certain.
You accused Oussama bin Laden of such a tragedy but where are your evidences ?
No, I don't mean these tapes that appear on CNN on a regular basis.
You also want to invade Iraq, which is your problem because there's nothing less certain that this will help you.
I don't want to speak about "conspiracy theories", here because I actually feel sorry for the victims of 911.
I'd just want you to think about it twice before starting a World War. This is not a fair war because you'll be bombing innocent people while other angry people will suddenly begin attacking you as a reaction.
This is also something that will ruin your economy.
So, if this story is about friendship, then, take it as from a friend : stop this war, stop Bush.
A guy that asks his lawyers whether he may bypass your congress in order to "open the Gate of Hell" is not a trustworthy leader.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Not 2001, but 1973.
Backed by the US government and the CIA, Augusto Pinochet seizes control of the Chilean military. The previous commander, Rene Scheider, was assassinated by the CIA when he refused to lead a coup against the democratically elected president, Dr. Salvador Allende, who was murdered in his home. This began a 2-decade long reign of terror in which thousands were imprisoned, tortured and killed, and thousands more were exiled.
Let's hope the next "regime change" is better managed, or Ground Zero and Desert Storm II will only be the start of the West's problems.
BRING YOUR AIRPLANE TO WORK DAY
(Yeah, I know it's crass and I just blew karms but I'm fed up with seeing so much media and commercial appropriation of these events with faux-maudlin opportunism. Same goes for the USian government using it as an excuse for a totalitarian power grab.)
. We've got computers, we're tapping phone lines, you know that ain't allowed - Talking Heads, "Life During Wartime"
Yup, the UK has suffered terrorism for decades. Notably, terrorism from the IRA, funded at least in part by the US. Since Dubya has declared that those who fund terrorists are guilty, when is he going after the catholics in the USA?
Insightful? Perhaps to yet another teenager...
Unless you're a sociopath with an obsession for civil rights(a highly unlikely combination at best), you are completely full of shit. The idea that the first thought that popped into your head was something not related to fire and death is completely incredulous.
A year after on an attack on the United States which killed thousands of innocent people, it is a challenge to avoid polemics or hackneyed sentimentalism. The confusion stirred up by these events has raised tensions both between the cultural West and East, and within the West itself. The well intentioned from all over the political spectrum have analyzed and interpreted the events surrounding the specific attacks and the wider questions that surround it ad infinitum, yet no clear strategy or purpose has emerged from the West to deal with this crisis.
The moral questions that surround the attacks, the nature of "terrorism", and the conflict between the fundamentalist Islamic world and the West are interesting but somewhat irrelevant. The attempt to paint different actors good and evil have gained nothing in the way of consensus and open up its supporters to claims of hypocrisy and blindness. On the other side, the justification of anti-American sentiment based on moral equivalency or past or current US actions, while having valid points, will win no converts and is suspect of being a front for latent anti-Americanism.
So what are the options for the West? We can do nothing, but the status quo has given us our current situation. We can attempt to understand the perpetrators, but who the perpetrators are is an elusive subject itself. The conceit that we can actually understand them is also a bit unrealistic, considering the stark differences in the foundations of our societies, the difference in wealth and technology, and the deep hatred embedded on both sides.
The difference in wealth and technology is a poignant one as it brings us to see the essence of the crisis. We currently have the technological means so far ahead of any of our possible adversaries that with the momentum of a unified West, we can stop any regime that supports the destruction of our culture. That difference in culture, wealth, and technology, is the raison d'etre for the nascent movements against the West. Couched in religious fundamentalism, it becomes even more dangerous, and practically incurable, unless the West was to give up the very core of its culture. As this is unlikely to happen, unless we destroy the power behind the culture that seeks to destroy us, we will be destroyed ourselves. To see this is as impossible is to be pessimistic as to the power of our society. To see this as easy is to be naïve. The political correctness that leads us away from calling a clash of civilizations "a clash of civilizations" reveals our soft underbelly.
I am not a hawk or a warmonger. Before this crisis emerged, I would have been against any moves by the US or the West that would be seen as imperialistic or bullying. After careful consideration however, I no longer care about the perceptions of the US by those both on the inside and the outside of Western society. By eliminating the regimes in Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, we will do a service to countless future generations by removing the vitriolic cancer of hate and ignorant religiousness that permeates those societies. To think that someday (and I'm not sure if it is as soon as the media is no portraying it) these societies will not possess nuclear weapons and use them against us is naivety to the point of delirium. This is no crusade, to call it such would be to further couch our motives in destructive religious terms, it is a battle for human progress and civilization.
Under confusion, non-cooperation, and disinterestedness, Rome was overrun.
(originally posted by me on internet infidels )
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What about all the other tragic events from the past that was forgotten.
Feel free to mark your calendar for the other months besides September.
I'd like a holiday for all of those, please!
I'll even work those holidays...of course I need time and a half pay.....
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
Osama ibn Laden's HOME PAGE HERE!!
Eat at Joe's.
While I expect to get mod'ed down as a troll, which I am NOT try to do, I feel as though I have to vent.
[Vent Mode: On]
First let me say, Get Over It People!
Here is why:
1) The WTC tragedy happened a year ago, our lives have changed, and the WTC events are regrettable. Many people lost their lives and loved ones, but when can we let go of the past and let the dead rest in peace.
2) Life continues, we need to look forward to what is ahead and attempt to prevent these things from happening in the future.
3) Why are we so obsessed with this one event and not the other teribble things which have happened in our collective past? We, as a nation, do not make such a big deal out of remembering any one of the following: The Hindenberg Diaster in NJ, The Kent State shooting(s), The death of JFK in Dallas, The Challenger Disaster, Apollo 13 comming home, the list goes on and on. So, why are we making such a big deal about the Sept 11th attacks? Could it be that the national mas media outlets are having a slow news day(?), or worse are manipulating us to getting whipped up about this event.
Come on people, Life is full of trials and tribulations. We need to deal with them and let them go, NOT get whipped up everytime the mass media makes a big fuss about events which happened last year!
Hopefully, today will put an end to the mourning, and and bring a new determination to look to the future, and stop reliving the past.
[Rant Mode: Off]
Thank You for listening.
Hey cool, now what your children will remember about 9/11 is that you lied to them.
What a beautiful day, besides the act of terrorism it's a signpost of the government taking away our freedoms, AND when daddy lied.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Everybody else has a month but me. Until now.
I declare July to be "White American Man History" month.
We will commemorate the accomplishments of white American men:
Democracy, railroads, automobiles, airplanes,
television, highways, and the Internet.
And that's just infrastructure. Let's not forget:
Socket wrenches, Dirty Harry, the fast break,
pizza delivery, Harley-Davidsons, and scoreboards.
Contrary to popular belief and NBC Dateline stories,
not all white American males wear pinstriped suits
and neckties and brainstorm ways to ass fuck the
tired, poor, and huddled masses.
No, there are white American men among us making it
for themselves and others,
and they enjoy the ride to boot.
So July 1, crack open a cold beer,
put some burgers and dogs on the grill,
find a ball game on TV,
and revel in all that white American men have achieved.
The party is getting started and I have sparklers to spare.
Just don't ask me to dance.