Time just marches on, that is for sure. Today was the 18th "birthday" of the 9/11 tragedy, surely one for those alive remember where they were when we heard what hell 19 idiots accomplished. Other than killing a bunch of innocent people, did they really accomplish anything? For all their thoughts of revenge or that they would put America in its place, we have only been in their land pretty much killing and destroying anything that doesn't agree with "democracy" for the last 18 years.
You almost have to feel bad for poor Saddam who was busily minding his own business killing his own people, but staying in his yard like a well trained dog. Needing a villain after not being able to catch a 6ft 5in arab attached to a dialysis machine, we turned to a guy we installed in the first fucking place and made him out to be Satan. All the powers that be promised us all these weapons of mass destruction. I heard so much expert language from the republicans that worked here how the middle east would become Nirvana after we went in there and taught them how to live correctly. Well, now that the milestone is a teenager and we've spent trillions of dollars bombing sand, are we safer? Did we spread democracy? Do the people in the middle east love us? I was told I didn't know what I was talking about, that democracy would slowly spread and catch on.
Nobody ever clarified, other than saying it wasn't about the oil, why Saudi Arabia did not even get a hand slapped for the fact that most of the plane thieves were from there. W was a clown and more or less incompetent, who knew things could get worse from there? Barrack talked like a great president, even if his biggest accomplishment was screwing up our medical insurance system. I believed in care for all, but not with it coming from my wallet. Regular Joe was fucked hard in this, we are paying so much more for so much less. And then as a reward we got a guy that is pretty much a joke. The president used to be this larger than life person who had served in the military and carried respect from being a good and honest man all his life. Somehow, in three cycles since those horrible plane crashes, our president might just be the guy best able to hate on some minorities, while treating women like they belong barefoot and in the kitchen, while at the same time boasting obnoxious things like he could catch Bigfoot with his own hands, or battle a hurricane and bust it down to a cool front by snapping his fingers. Stupid people will believe anything.
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