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Tuesday Sep 11, 2007
Six years ago today - Never forget
Six years ago today, we were attacked. "We" is more than just the United States. "We" includes people of every nationality and every age. The questions that we continue to ask are:
- Why did "they" choose to attack "us?"
- How can we prevent it from happening again?
We might never know the real answer to the first question, but the general answer is simply: "They" don't like "us." Whether it is simply a case of envy (we have more than they have) or a case of religious extremism (kill those who don't agree with our faith), the basic issue is that they don't like us. A very recent video claimed that they would stop attacks if we all converted to Islam. Many countries have very strict rules about what their people believe, who can hold what kind of jobs, or how their people can worship. The US, and many of our allies, strive to be more tolerant, to allow people to choose their lives and their God(s). These religious and cultural differences might be at the core of the attacks on September 11, 2001.
However, although historically religion is often cited as the cause of war, sometimes it is simply a convenience. You can make up a religious argument for almost anything (for-or-against abortion, for-or-against homosexuality, for-or-against racial or gender equality, and so on). Maybe the root cause is really just one of envy - they envy our "global domination." They envy the country whose poor is richer than many countries rich. Or, maybe they have a personal axe to grind (got kicked out of school or something). We might never know. And, maybe it doesn't really matter why they attacked us initially except that knowing why they attacked us might help us to prevent them from doing so again.
How, then, do we prevent another attack? It is worth noting that no additional attacks have occurred on US soil (I pray that continues to be true today). This results from the efforts of many thousands of people. Our active-duty (including those from the Reserves who have been called to active duty) service personnel are willing to give up their lives to prevent another such attack. They guard our freedoms at home and abroad, often giving up any semblence of a normal life to do so. There are many people who work behind the scenes as well, in homeland defense, intelligence gathering, and other supporting roles to make sure that we have the most current data possible on our enemies. All those people (and many more who are too numerous to mention) work together every day to prevent further attacks.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world is not quite so safe. Whether specifically related to the group that claimed responsibility for the September 11th attacks or not, terrorism is a daily fact of life in many parts of the world. The "war on terror" has been going on for many years, but we really only joined it in 2001. Whether you agree with sending troops to Afghanistan or Iraq, the fact of life is that we are involved in a global war on terror. That war will not end soon, nor will it be easy. However, it is necessary, as we are the defenders of freedom.
Remember September 11, 2001 - We will not falter, and we will not fail.
Posted at 11:58AM Sep 11, 2007 by jcinfoblog in General | Comments[2]
A 28-year CIA career man and a former skeptic of alternative 9/11 explanations has gone further than ever before in voicing his convictions that the attacks bore the hallmarks of an inside job and the three buildings in the WTC complex were brought down by controlled demolition.
Bill Christison is a former senior official of the CIA. He was a National Intelligence Officer and the Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis before his retirement in 1979. Since then he has written numerous articles on U.S. foreign policies.
In Christison's recent article, Stop Belittling the Theories About September 11, he afforded credibility to the notion that "significant parts" of the official 9/11 story were false and after careful research he concluded that the twin towers and building 7, "were most probably destroyed by controlled demolition charges placed in the buildings."
Christison went further on The Alex Jones Show, agreeing that the attacks being an inside job was the "most likely possibility."
"David Griffin believes this all was totally an inside job - I've got to say I think that it was too," said Christison.
Christison initially approached the subject unwilling to even consider that elements of the government could be engaged in such heights of criminality but his research quickly began to change his mind.
"Just about half a year ago it dawned on me that not only was I trying to avoid an issue that might be extraordinarily important - more important than any other issue," said Christison.
"I have since decided that....at least some elements in this US government had contributed in some way or other to causing 9/11 to happen or at least allowing it to happen."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/070906insidejob.htm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5550
Posted by imad on September 12, 2007 at 01:18 AM CDT #
Imad - You are entitled to your opinion. However, the statement that you quoted "...some elements in the government had contributed... at least allowing it to happen" can be interpreted in many different ways, including simply the fact that we could have captured Osama bin Laden years earlier.
Posted by Janice (blog owner) on September 12, 2007 at 09:47 AM CDT #