9/11 & Aftermath

Remembering 9/11 and Everything That’s Happened Since

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 11, 2008 ⋅   Email this post ⋅  Digg This ⋅  Share on Facebook ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Today I’m thinking about the people we lost and their families, but I’m also struggling with all the policy decisions and horrifying mistakes that have happened in this country since 2001. I’m not as zealously leftist as Dennis Kucinich, but he articulated my feelings well today:

We suffer in our remembrance of 9/11, because of the terrible loss of innocent lives on that grim day. We also suffer because 9/11 was seized as an opportunity to run a political agenda, which has set America on a course of the destruction of another nation and the destruction of our own Constitution. And we have become less secure as a result of the warped practice of pursing peace through the exercise of pre-emptive military strength.

It is not simply 9/11 that needs to be remembered. We also need to remember the politicization of 9/11 and the polarizing narrative which followed, locking us into endless conflict, a war on terror which has wrought further terror worldwide and which has severely damaged our standing worldwide as an honorable, compassionate nation. As we were all victims of 9/11, so we have become victims of the interpretation of 9/11.

Also following along with NYC ceremonies on the New York Times.  The paper also had this editorial today about rebuilding at Ground Zero.