9/11 Rewrote Our Lives in Ways We Are Only Beginning to Comprehend
The tragedy, embedded in the DNA of future generations and the foundations of the people we are today.
September 11, 2012 - 8:58 am
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9/11 rewrote our lives. I realize now, for example, that 9/11′s chilling effect on the economy decreased the levels of tourism in the Bahamas, prompting my future mother-in-law to move my future-wife and her brother back to the United States.
Are there other families out there who would not exist if Osama bin Laden had not continued Sayyid Qutb’s war against America? Are there children who would not have been born if not for the imperial war of conquest initiated against us? Eleven years later are we ready to start understanding what it means that war is the Father of Us All?
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Don’t forget all of the future generations that will never be born because of the deaths on 9/11, either. Surely that’s as great an effect as all the children who were born because of it.
9/11 did not change me politically. I had long been alternately skeptical of and disgusted with the Western Left, ever since I absorbed Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago one summer in high school. And I had long followed the dreary litany of Islamic terrorism, bombings and hijackings, from the 70s onwards. When 9/11 happened, I knew before hearing any announcement that it was probably Osama bin Laden, because he was responsible for the attacks on the U. S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. I had visited Kenya before, and loved the warm friendly people there, so that attack was doubly atrocious to me. On 9/11, watching Muslims party in the streets, and proggs exclaim “How terrible! But…” simply confirmed me more solidly in my opinions.
How about all the people who joined the armed forces because of those events? (I have at least two family members who did.) And how about all the people who became legal citizens due in part or because of those events?
The events did have a changing effect on my political opinions and religious beliefs. More recent events have further changed them.
I’m sorry, I meant to say he WASNT happy after he did it. he felt awful.
First, it’s hard to believe that 11 years have passed since that terrible day when millions of us watched on TV as our world, as we thought we knew it, changed before our eyes. The impossible took place piece by piece and I still wonder, as many do, if the plot that unfolded was the real truth or something more sinister lurked behind the scenes. If the fruitless wars in the Middle East didn’t teach us something, most likely, the events that day didn’t either. We did learn that many military people are not automatically geniuses because of their high ranks, on the contrary, they have been riding the coattails of influential politicians for decades. Furthermore, it is still possible that 9/11 was carefully manipulated drama, costing thousands of lives, to hide losses in the trillions to greedy leaders. We may never know the cast involved. We do know that Iraq was a mistake costing us treasure and the loss of too many young people. More importantly, we learned the true nature of our enemies in the East and that history, as taught to them, is an on-going fable. The most important lesson being we should never elect anybody with extreme beliefs different from our own and expect that person to put them aside.