5 years later...

This is great. Spending the wee hours of the morning on the weekend watching CNN filled with 9/11 "remembrance" content. Ugh. So it’s been 5 years. I think I and most of the world have had their fill of all of the arguments for and against every single thing that has happened since then. Seriously. Don't get me wrong though. It was a heartbreaking and serious event that changed the socio-political discourse of the world as we know it. Economically as well. But people tend to tire of things, especially in America. I for one, have had my fill when it comes to "slinging 9/11" for every miserable, poorly thought-out decision that is made when it comes to the Bush regime: war in Iraq, torture, secret prisons, domestic spying, CIA name leaking, multiple civil rights infringements, the usage of 'nationalism' as a weapon against its own people, and the list goes on...

I could go on for days listing every last fucked up thing that has occurred because of this, and I'm sure that this is not the last blog posting that considers these subjects. But for Christ sake! Enough is Enough! During all of this remembrance, blah blah blah, justification for war in Iraq, blah blah blah, ummm... WHY THE FUCK HAVEN'T WE CAUGHT OSAMA YET?

It's been FIVE years people. How long did it take for us to dig out Saddam out of a spider hole? FIVE years later, we still "don't know where he is." Sure, as my friend Zac would put it: "We can't catch him, or the war is over, and the Bush regime has no more ammo to justify everything else that it does..."

Sure, I can see this to a degree, but here's another point: Terrorism was NOT born on 9/11. And it's not going to END with capturing him, but at least its a step in the right direction. As long as American or Western, or non-Islamic policies are viewed as creating oppression to these people, they will go to extremes in order to try to change this. Period.

So where does the solution lie? I don't have the answer to this, but I do know that starting at the root of the problem would be a step in the right direction. Krishnamurti had some profound thoughts on this subject...

Moving on... in the news I see that shit is getting really bad in Afghanistan and we can't pledge any more troops to the effort there, because shit is haywire in Iraq. Poland said it would up the ante by 1000 troops several days after this, but this is still short of the needed 2500+ needed in order to stabilize the region. WTF? All of the allied organizations in the modern world, and with rising problems we're not going to match them? Things are definitely not looking up.

Now we have the crisis in Darfur as well. It’s been going on for sometime now, and until JUST recently, few have paid attention (thanks Clooney.) So what is Annan to do? He'll be stepping down real soon, and I'm sure on top of the food-for-oil scandal, he doesn't need another tragedy going down in history as under his watch. I guess we'll see.

Well the world's going to hell in a hand basket, as my mother would say. Yet I still wake up every day and do my thing. Do the world a favor, if you're not already: Join moveon.org, read the news from various sources, TALK ABOUT IT to others. As long as people are realizing what is going on in the world and how it affects them directly, they will think about it, and hopefully put this thought in to action.

We all hope for a better tomorrow, but it is up to us to make these hopes a reality.