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]

"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.