1 Boring Old Man

I was looking at this on The Next Hurrah. It’s there to talk about the war and things now. But I was thinking about 9/11. A morning patient came in that day and asked, "Have you heard? something’s happening in New York. I heard it on the radio." We went into our lounge and turned on the television. No one knew what had happened, but the first tower was smoking. Throughout the morning, we watched the second one be hit. We watched them come down. Each new person that came in took a while to reach the level of numbness the rest of us had acheived. And so it went, for days…

We rallied behind our President. We knew he wasn’t the one for the job, but then who was? And a year later, he went crazy. He started talking about Iraq. Everyone in the government was talking about Iraq. Iraq was not our problem, but his campaign was fierce, and 70%+ must’ve believed him according to this graph. So we followed him in making the biggest blunder ever made by a modern nation. It wasn’t even an honest mistake, it was part of a pre-existing crackpot neoconservative plan. It’s been six years since those towers burned and fell. In that six years, the government we counted on to lead us has almost destroyed us.