re: #90 Blind Frog Belly White

This is probably a terrible thing to admit, but I’m tired of 9/11.

I’m blessed/cursed with an excellent memory, so I remember it well, as well as the following days of shock, disbelief, horror, sadness, anger, and fear. I don’t need reminders, and I doubly don’t need pissants like Ben Fucking Shapiro using 9/11 as a way to crap on his fellow Americans. I won’t link, but he wrote an article titled, “FOR OBAMA AND THE LEFT, ‘NEVER FORGET’ IS BULLS***”

The biggest problem is that we never even tried to get closure in the original military conflict that 9/11 precipitated. Anybody who saw the name Operation Enduring Freedom and did not instantly feel in their gut that this was going to turn into a never-ending mission creep cluster fuck never nurtured nurtured their inner cynic. Bush almost immediately took the eye off the ball and diverted crucial resources away from the pursuit of Bin Laden towards staging the entirely unrelated, unnecessary and ultimately disastrous invasion of Iraq.

Because of that we as a nation never really recovered from 9/11 in the same way we did from Pearl Harbor. We never earned anything resembling a truly tangible victory over the enemies who attacked us, we never found an effective way to deal with the psychic wound, and we’re sociologically paying for that in spades.