Status Report

The sad thing that occurred to me today, apart from the obvious tragedy itself to be sad about, is that if you were to say to someone who perhaps wasn't entirely paying attention to the calendar that it was the Anniversary, and they were to ask "Anniversary of what?" you'd probably just answer "September eleventh." Step back from it a moment, say that outloud, and admit that it sounds pretty stupid.

Meanwhile, however, it has been two years. Take a quick stock of the situation, please. They keep talking about making America feel safer. So. Americans, do you feel safer lately? Safer that we're going to allow pilots to have loaded guns on airplanes, virtually ensuring depressurization should they actually be fired? Safer that we've invaded a country who performed no aggression against us? Safer that we've dangerously overstretched our military doing so? Safer that we've angered most of the rest of the world while we should have been building international relationships? Safer that our president is now begging these same nations for the very help he vehemently refused only months ago? Safer now that the government is giving itself more power to spy on you? Safer with military prison camps outside of our country, so we can deny prisoners the basic human rights our country was supposedly founded upon? Does any of this help you sleep at night? Is this how we bring about world peace?

Let me throw one out to any non-Americans that may be reading this. Take a nice long look at America. Do you feel safe?