A man meets with his psychiatrist. Every few seconds the man snaps his fingers. This goes on for a while and finally the doctor asks the man why he is snapping his fingers. The man says that it is to prevent the pink elephants from trampling them to death. The doctor says, "There are no pink elephants." The man says, "See? It works!"
We are all familier with 9/11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center. We have been told that it was the action of a huge terrorist organization. So what happened to it? Why have there been no other such attacks? Surely the success of the 9/11 attack should have brought a host of others in its wake. Our defense against terrorist attacks is laughable. Our vulnerabilities are legion.
The only reason I can come up with for the lack of another attack in all these years is that there is no such organization. That the whole idea of such an organization was a lie made up by the present Administration to justify their doing whatever they wanted to do. The result has been hundreds of billions of dollars wasted, thousands of innocent people killed, thousands of servicemen's lives ruined, and international embarassment for the U.S.
Our government would have us believe, like the man snapping his fingers, that their actions have prevented the attacks of terrorists. I find such a belief to be quite silly. The world has seen terrorists for thousands of years. Ireland is a prominent example. But the Irish have survived. Their nation has flourished. The vast majority of their people live good lives. But even at its worst, someone living in Ireland was in more danger from traffic than from terrorists.
We are not fighting a war on terror. That's just propaganda. That's just an excuse to take advantage of the citizens.
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Comments: 30
First we have no proof that it was terrorists.
Second the steel girders in the basement were sliced diagonally
Third The airlines never paid death benefits to people aboard the plane that crashed into the twin towers. We believe it was robot driven, the windows were painted all black.
The plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. The airlines paid death benefits to next of kin.
Fourth The twin towers came down like the demolitions in Las Vegas. Preset demolitions.
Fifth The so called hit on the White House. It blew out not in. Do you think we are crazy?
You can see it on Bush's face as he sat in that classroom, reading his book.
Pam: You cannot simply fight a war on terror. Terror is too broad a definition to fight; think of Don Quixote and windmills. We CAN fight specific groups which use tactics such as those on 9/11, but we must target those specific groups.
Ann: Agreed. Conspiracy might be a little strong of a word to describe what actually happened, but it would only take a small handful of people to "allow" things to take place instead of stopping them.
Larry: Terrorism is a concept, not an entity. You can educate to reduce, perhaps someday even eliminate terrorism, but the need to achieve goals at any cost drives terrorism. Even Colonial troops resorted to forms of terrorism as did Britain during the Revolutionary War, and Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were considered terrorists by the British. Heck, even Nelson Mandela was declared a terrorist by Ronald Reagan.
I love the whole "pink elephant" analogy. Great parable!
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."
~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower (5-Star General), his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961
Sadly I must conclude that you are right.
I assure you that the MIComples does not exist in order to "help our economy." but rather to make certain persons even richer. It is the big money interests who advocate for and promote the MIComples and they don't do it for anyone's benefit but their own.
Customers create jobs. By making the government buy things we don't need we are coerced customers of the big money interests. We definitely need a very good and effective military, but what we have bought is hardly that. Good men trying hard to serve their nation and their families are wasted, abused, crippled in mind and body and thrown away for nothing. But I suppose some would say that devastation also creates jobs for doctors and nurses.
And nurses could use much better hospital administration that gives them enough rest between work sessions.