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Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via Mark Karlin (with permission):
9-11 was indeed a devastating loss of personal life. Those who died were mostly US citizens, but included people of all nations... It was a "shared" loss, indicative of the international inclusiveness of America. [...]
BuzzFlash at Truthout, publishing since May of 2000, reported and broke stories on the attack on the Twin Towers (and the Pentagon) and the Bush/Cheney administration use of the tragedy to launch military conflicts of empire. [...]
Yes, BuzzFlash at Truthout focused on verifiable fact that Bush and Rice were warned of likely Al-Qaeda hijackings and how the stenographic DC press let them off the hook on their egregious unintentional or intentional lapse in heightening airport security that might indeed have prevented 9-11. [...]
The corporate press thought [Bush's] excuses made sense, except for the simple logical fact that if Bush and Rice, among others, had taken increased steps to prevent hijackings, they might have prevented the hijackings that brought down the Twin Towers and blew up part of the Pentagon.
Furthermore, in exclusive reporting by Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye on Truthout, it is revealed that US intelligence services did indeed know of Al-Qaeda interest in targeting the Twin Towers and the Pentagon [...]
In other words, the Bush administration was aware that the terrorist organization had set its sights on those structures prior to 9/11 and, apparently, government officials failed to act on those warnings. [Laffy Note: My post about that here] [...]
...Osama bin-Laden achieved one of his major goals: crippling America economically... We had our time to grieve, but we haven't moved on. [...]
[T]he Republican Party shifted the national narrative from 9-11 to the deficit, which ... has been a substantial contributor to our financial shortfall. But 9-11 has continued to be an albatross around the neck of national progress and the closure of grief and grievance. [...]
We have appropriately mourned those who died in the attack of 9-11. It is time that we honor them by advancing as a nation to write the next chapter of the great experiment in democracy known as America.
Please read all of Mark's post here, I left a lot out.
Now take a quick look at Time to leave 9/11 behind by E. J Dionne in today's Washington Post:
In the flood of anniversary commentary, notice how often the term “the lost decade” has been invoked. We know now, as we should have known all along, that American strength always depends first on our strength at home — on a vibrant, innovative and sensibly regulated economy, on levelheaded fiscal policies, on the ability of our citizens to find useful work, on the justice of our social arrangements.
This is not “isolationism.” It is a common sense that was pushed aside by the talk of “glory” and “honor,” by utopian schemes to transform the world by abruptly reordering the Middle East — and by our fears. While we worried that we would be destroyed by terrorists, we ignored the larger danger of weakening ourselves by forgetting what made us great.
We have no alternative from now on but to look forward and not back. This does not dishonor the fallen heroes, and Lincoln explained why at Gettysburg. “We can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow this ground,” he said. “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.” The best we could do, Lincoln declared, was to commit ourselves to “a new birth of freedom.” This is still our calling.
Just two perspectives that I wanted to share with you that I found to have merit. We mourn, we cry, but we also must move forward.
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