Anniversary

[poliphilo]

I've just looked at the date.

Oh my- 9/11!

Why wasn't I apprised of this? Why weren't the papers full of commemorative stuff?

I guess because we've moved on. We have Iraq to worry about. Katrina has changed the paradigm just as the attack on the twin towers once did.

This is a fast-moving century.

We're packing more history into the available time than we ever did before.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Katrina- or rather the aftermath of Katrina- has changed international perceptions of the USA. "Wounded behemoth" is exactly right. Suddenly we're much less in awe of you.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

And we are less in awe of ourselves.

Underneath all our bluster, we're scared to death like everybody else.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And who'd have predicted any of it?

Once again history has taken us by surprise.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"Hopefully that will mean the world will no longer expect the Sun, the Moon and the stars from us any longer."

I think that will probably be the case.

[philtration.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong. The U.S. should be able to handle its own problems and we should be capable of doing great things. I just have grown tired of seeing my tax dollars go to other nations who hate us while our own matters are not addressed first. Why should I finance the advancement of other nations only to see my own country slowly slip into the abyss? I am not a Republican or a Democrat. I am not a Liberal or a Conservative. I am not a Nationalist, Isolationist or Imperialist. Just an American who sometimes wants to shout "ENOUGH!"

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's fair enough.

Every government's prime responsibility is towards its own citizens.