9-11

I was at Michael's, the craft store' the other day and they had a like kiosk/end aisle thing with decorations for 9-11. It just struck me as being sort of odd, off putting. I don't understand peoples reaction to this date, or to the events of the last 10 years. A group of religious fanatics with box cutters caused The United States of America to spend to the point of loss of empire.
I know better than to say any of this in public, until Paul Krugman wrote is column in this mornings NYT, here is the entire thing:

September 11, 2011, 8:41 AM, New York TImes
The Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.


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THis is exactly how I feel .The attack happened to us all , sort of. I mean , mostly New Yorkers and Washingtonians, but the entire country. I do not judge how anyone morns or grieves, but I just do not understand at all why today is a day for blatant Jingoism  Service yes, working with first responders yes, somber reflection... but rah rah America fuck yeah... I'm not there , at all.