9-11 Reflections

With today being the 8th anniversary of 9-11 and us being in New York City, it is hard not to reflect back to what happened eight years ago. Flying in last night we flew along Manhattan and the fallen towers were represented by beams of light straight up into the sky. So many lives needlessly lost and so little accomplished by the Chimperator and his minions who, had they been on the ball and worried about national security rather than kissing the ass of the Christian Right, might have prevented the tragedy. Bob Felton at Civil Commotion has an assessment that I believe to be pretty much right on point:

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Eight years later Osama bin Laden remains at large and al Qaeda continues its plotting; Afghanistan and Iraq are in ruins and without a realistic prospect of civil stability; the Taliban controls Pakistan’s Swat Valley and enjoys a de facto veto of that country’s government; and the United States are bankrupt, its citizens hemmed by a steadily-growing lattice-work of security regulations, the ability to make public decisions frozen in polar acrimony. Needlessly, we have given Bin Laden a success that must vastly exceed his fevered imaginings.

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It is mind numbing that given the Chimperator's failings - perhaps some of the worst of any U.S. president - that the GOP and its lunatic base have the nerve to attack Obama and claim he is ruining the country. THEY ruined the country during their eight years of misrule that I suspect Obama ever will or could.

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My fellow LGBT Blogger Summit friend Waymon Hudson has an interesting reflection here - he was working as a flight attendant on 9-11-2001 and had left on a flight out of New York City that fateful morning.