A 9/11 'What-If?'

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A 9/11 'What-If?'

By Peter Dyer
September 11, 2008

What if we had never gone to war? What if, after the shocking crimes of September 11, 2001, the United States had pursued a different course?

What if all the blood which has been spilled in the name of justice still flowed in living veins; all the American, Iraqi and other lives shattered were still whole; all the homes destroyed or lost still standing, still occupied by families who never harmed us?

We have spent monumental treasure and energy on two wars. What if, instead, we had invested a fraction of that in a determined, unrelenting effort to bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a fair and transparent trial in a court of law?

Of course, we’ll never know.

When we were confronted with the most heinous series of terrorist acts in our history Americans overwhelmingly lined up behind President Bush’s call for a "Global War on Terror."

We can only speculate on what might have been the result of a different course of action, guided by a fundamentally different vision.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/091108a.html

[ixion]

1. I am proud to say that I was NOT one of those lining up behind the Monkey King

supporting yet another 'war' against shadows on the wall. Much to my dismay, I was very much in the minority on that.

[yurbud]

3. I was in shock because all of the sudden (at least to me) the TV news completely parted ways with

reality.

[ixion]

4. I agree...

broadcast news' relationship with reality has always been tenuous, but it separated completely (fracturing the deep structure of language along with it).

[balantz]

2. And what if

we were able to impeach and prosecute.