Jim Murray

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9/11 TWENTY YEARS ON Today is the 20th Anniversary of the tragic 9/11 terronst attacks in New York City and Washington DC. I remember it vividly But then again, something hike that would be very hard to forget. One of the things it tagged in me was a deepening of my cunosity about the US and how things worked there. So | started paying closer attention First on TV and Radio and later on the Internet, One of the things 9/11 did was increased the US involvement in the Middle East, which in hindsight. always 20/20. was a pretty big boo boo. And frankly. [ think 1t absolutely delighted all the ant-American terronst groups over there, because it gave them the land of cred they were looking for. The great Satan. they called it. And while the the US was eventually able to locate and destroy the figurchead of the movement in Osama Bin Laden. they still had the whole rest of a rather unruly beast to deal with And so it went from Iraq to Afghanistan by way of Syna The big bad Amencan forces against the ragtag rebels who were so crazy that even Islam didn't want anything to do with them. 20 years of fighting and traning and hoping and billions and casualties and deaths and what did they have to show for it? While it did nothing for the US internationally, it did a stupendous job of separating the country into left and nght wing factions. It weakened the whole country’s respect for government. And it gave rise to one of the most destructive presidencies in the country's history. Four years of pounng alcohol on the open wounds of the country. talang 1t out of the exalted position of a great democracy down to a political level more alan to so called banana republics. And all the while. the terronsts all over the Middle East were smiling. Their hero Bin Laden had managed to un- screw all the fasteners that were holding the US together And so here we are 20 years later. The sadness 1s even more pronounced by the deep tears it created in the national fabnc that country. America is now a country divided. Common ground 1s rare has her's teeth. And while it still has all the economic potential it used to have. the warring factions within are making any real 21st Century progress real uphill work It would be great if all Amencans could take a few moments on this day and think hard and deep about what their country really means to them. And what a unified nation with that country’s potential can do for all its people. and for the world Mur
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