Did you get enough September 11th anniversary coverage? My life’s not a whole lot different. Is yours?
I know it’s not a popular opinion but I don’t feel like the attacks five years ago were the nation changing event the media makes them out to be. We started covering our cars with stickers touting patriotic slogans and magnetic American flags made in China. So things changed but not necessarily for the best. That’s certainly being proven true by the resurgence of the Taliban and the fact that Bin Laden’s an even greater motivation to all of the very popular Madrassa’s in Pakistan. We should have concentrated in Afghanistan and left Iraq alone.
I’m proud to say I’m not a one-time Bush policy supporter who came to a realization too late. I said Iraq was a bad idea from conception, my exact words on ABCNews.com being “Saddam doesn’t even have the ability to shoot a slingshot towards the US”. I was confident in this statement because of UN inspection reports that were contrary to reported US “intelligence”, and have never been proven incorrect. Furthermore, I feel that many politicians who voted in favor of the Iraq invasion did not believe the WMD argument personally but feared voter backlash if they presented themselves as anything less than terrorist-fearing “patriots”.
This appeasement of the voters is an issue that has not been discussed at great length in any media venue I’m aware of. We must trust that our representatives will vote with their morals and their hearts, not strictly within party lines for fear of offending their peers and most certainly not out of fear of offending the constituency when what is at stake is the greater good of our nation.