Has the world seemed surreal since 9/11?
I don’t know about you, but since 9/11, I often find myself wondering what crack in reality I must have slipped through to end up in this strange parrallel universe. In this world, the Bush administration took a tragic terrorist act, and framed it as the “War On Terror”. And we let them do it. Congress rolled over, the media hopped on the bandwagon, and suddenly, we had a new enemy. This enemy belonged to no country. And who is to judge when we have won?
Then, for some strange reason, the Bush administration started talking about — Iraq. This country whose armed forces were defeated and contained. Had any of the 9/11 hijackers come from Iraq? No. Then, what was going on? Well, they had Weapons of Mass Destruction, didn’t they? Maybe so, maybe not. But that’s beside the point. What did Iraq have to do with 9/11? Nothing that I could see. Boy this was strange. And the country bought it again! And so did the media! This is a bait and switch game of global proportions. Gee, I hope I can find that crack in the space-time continuum and get back to my world. It’s a saner place.
Happily, someone in this world is starting to say what should have been said 5 years ago. Richard N. Haass, writing an op-ed piece that’s been syndicated to 300 newspapers worldwide. It’s worth a read. If you just want to hear about it, there was an interview with him today on NPR.
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April 24th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
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