Ten Lost Years

[xchrom]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,785280,00.html

What remains etched in our minds, 10 years after the fact? Two images tell the entire story. One is of the burning Twin Towers and the other of a prisoner being tortured in Abu Ghraib. This is the iconography of human insanity: the horrific crime in New York and the horrific crime of the war against terror.

Violence was fought with violence, only to generate even more violence.

Anyone who believed that people had learned something from the wars of the 20th century was promptly disabused of that notion at the beginning of the new millennium. In fact, we have learned nothing. We are still all too willing to exterminate each other, even with our bare hands. And we always have good reasons to do so. We are always in the right.

What remains, 10 years later? The realization that those who pursue the law of revenge are condemning themselves. And that a record of horror never adds up. The policy of the United States after 9/11 wasn't merely immoral. It actually damaged the country.

The roughly 3,000 people who died on Sept. 11 were followed by more than 6,000 dead American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, countless civilian victims, 5 million refugees and costs currently estimated at more than $3 trillion (€2.13 trillion).

[liberal N proud]

1. That's revenge - sacrificing 6000+ because 3000 were killed.

:sacrifice:

[HereSince1628]

2. The last 10 years has been Noblesse Oblige for PEAK EMPIRE

As Masters of Planet USA, and authors of The New American Century, we had a moral obligation to spread free-market capitalism into every hovel on this piece of space debris. You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

Look at the world! It is a much better place for capitalists than anyone expected after just two decades of American hegemony. Just because you weren't one of those who accumulated assets large enough to provide break-away power doesn't mean you should be pissing on success of the banksters God chose to bless.


:silly:

[rurallib]

3. According to the CBO, America would have been out of debt

in 2011 had they staid on the same trajectory that Clinton had established