I think that the USA needs to
move on from September 11th.
Now before all you pseudo-patriots come attempting to sway my
opinion with your “unwavering loyalty to the country”,
let me just take a minute to explain things. I am an American.
I’m a male. And I was a young boy when the events took
place.
The events are tragic. I’m not saying that they aren’t.
But the US government and the media make it out to be some
worldwide catastrophe that claimed the lives of millions of people
around the world, when really, the event only killed about 2,600
people, which in the grand scheme of things for a large country
like the United States isn’t a huge number.
Also, we’re Americans. Not only are we extremely
self-absorbed with our ignorance, fueled by the liberally biased
media, we’re hardly sympathetic for our victims. We forced
unspeakable violence upon the natives when we came here, we killed
almost 150,000 people in dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and we’ve pointlessly murdered innocent people in
the Middle East.
I understand that a lot of people died, and I should be respecting
them. But while we honor the dead, we can’t have these
extravagant 2-hour TV specials reading the names of all these
people who died 12 years after the disaster. You don’t see
Japan having these insane specials reading off the names of people
who died in their terrorist attacks. Yes, that qualifies as a
terrorist attack.
I honestly don’t care anymore. Terrorist attacks happen all
the time in other countries every day. Just because this one
happened in America doesn’t make it any different. It was a
terrible thing that happened, but it’s been 12 years. We
killed Osama. Why we are still in Iraq, I will never know, but
that’s a story for another time. The USA is comparable to a
person who still clings to their ex-spouse or significant other
years after they broke up.
We have to move on with our
lives. Not forget about it completely, but just move on and keep in
it the back of our thoughts.
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I think that the USA needs to move on from September 11th. Now
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Sep 10, 2013 11:13pm