Our leader says that the economy is more urgent to worry about than global warming. "We have a war to fight."
I have not heard any popular reaction to those statements.
If we are indeed the richest, most powerful nation of the world, shouldn't we be the model of how to deal with global warming? And inequality? And injustice? And, and, and...
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Shouldn't we have been more prepared for Hurricane Katrina? There were warnings.
Shouldn't we have been more prepared for what we now call nine-eleven? There were warnings. There was maybe an hour between hijacking four planes and hitting the twin towers, then the Pentagon, and one was forced to crash. Not a fighter plane in the air anywhere near. And I have always wanted to have an expert explain to me how those buildings could collapse so perfectly, falling straight down into their own foundation. And then a third, smaller building, collapsing from the shock of seeing the other two implode? I have seen movies of buildings inside a city that were blasted on purpose--another, bigger and higher building had to be built there. I was always under the impression that it took specialists to know where to put the charges, and how to fire them one by one just so, so that the building implodes on itself.
Shouldn't we have been more prepared for the after effects of the air in the heart of New York, thick with debris and who knows what chemicals even days and weeks after 9-11, and thus prepared for medical consequences?
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Why are we in Iraq?
The Democratic (majority in) Congress could not stop the war by setting a date for withdrawal. Our leader was adamant that we cannot withdraw troops. Indeed, we need more troops, he insisted. For what? Victory. And what does victory mean? The end of terror everywhere, for always?
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