Were Reverend Wright and Osama bin Laden Right?
On a day where the Dow Industrials shed another 679 points, and settled below 8600 for the first time in half a decade, and is down over 30% from its high not a year ago, $9 trillion in lost wealth over a year, it's clear the economy is in critical condition, with no sign of the bottom appearing. And in the midst of this debacle caused of greed, avarice and utterly poor planning, I am left to ponder a question that brings us full-circle in two ways.
When Osama bin Laden's al qaeda brought down the "towers of Babylon," the World Trade Center, he explicitly stated that one of his goals was the crippling of the US economy. He was planning to attack the economy, and expose the "capitalist infidels" in America "God's wrath."
Attacking the economy with the goal to bring it to its knees.
Shortly thereafter, Reverend Jeremiah Wright made a comment -- on September 16, 2001 -- to the effect of:
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost,"
Chicken's coming home to roost.
As I look at 478,000 job losses this quarter alone, a deepening recession, and what experts are saying might be an "economic 9/11," I am left to wonder if those two men, from opposite sides of right and wrong, one a violent killer and one a man of God, were coming to the same point from two different angles.
The twin wars in the Middle and Far East are draining the treasury. The government and Wall Street have conspired to drain individual American pockets and 401(k) accounts. Bringing our economy to its knees. Internal overly-partisan politics, driven by a right-wing, "50% + 1" strategy formed by a presidential mental midget, and his turd blossom sidekick have Americans at each other's throats. A nation with internal disunity, fostered by a "just win, baby" attitude, similar to strategies with which we seeded other nations, to cause internal strife. Chickens coming home to roost.
The more I look -- dispassionately -- at these concomitant issues, I'm starting to feel that the attacks of 9/11 were the catalyst that allowed American faux-machismo to do ourselves in. We've helped to have the chickens come home to roost.
If you didn't know better, and viewed this dispassionately, one could be forgiven if they thought that America was on a slide, seven years in the engineering.
When Osama bin Laden's al qaeda brought down the "towers of Babylon," the World Trade Center, he explicitly stated that one of his goals was the crippling of the US economy. He was planning to attack the economy, and expose the "capitalist infidels" in America "God's wrath."
Attacking the economy with the goal to bring it to its knees.
Shortly thereafter, Reverend Jeremiah Wright made a comment -- on September 16, 2001 -- to the effect of:
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost,"
Chicken's coming home to roost.
As I look at 478,000 job losses this quarter alone, a deepening recession, and what experts are saying might be an "economic 9/11," I am left to wonder if those two men, from opposite sides of right and wrong, one a violent killer and one a man of God, were coming to the same point from two different angles.
The twin wars in the Middle and Far East are draining the treasury. The government and Wall Street have conspired to drain individual American pockets and 401(k) accounts. Bringing our economy to its knees. Internal overly-partisan politics, driven by a right-wing, "50% + 1" strategy formed by a presidential mental midget, and his turd blossom sidekick have Americans at each other's throats. A nation with internal disunity, fostered by a "just win, baby" attitude, similar to strategies with which we seeded other nations, to cause internal strife. Chickens coming home to roost.
The more I look -- dispassionately -- at these concomitant issues, I'm starting to feel that the attacks of 9/11 were the catalyst that allowed American faux-machismo to do ourselves in. We've helped to have the chickens come home to roost.
If you didn't know better, and viewed this dispassionately, one could be forgiven if they thought that America was on a slide, seven years in the engineering.
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