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This image was captured at the World Trade Center Memorial, in lower Manhattan, New York City—of a portion of one of the embankments that surround one of the two former foundations which formerly supported the two skyscrapers, there, which were destroyed in terror attacks directed my Islamic Jihadists, who, commandeering hijacked airliners, flew those planes into the gargantuan towers. These polished, granite and mortar structures, in which you see engraved names and flowers, serve as guardrails and pedestals for memorial plaques set in their skyward surfaces, surrounding the areas where the building stood, which now, ominously feature enormous and powerful, cavernous, waterfalls—which seem to fall into the abyss, at the heart of the two former foundations…. There may not be a more effective edifice constructed to catapult one into contemplation—at the site of history-shocking violence—inspiring endless thought on the meaning of life, death, and where all things end up, weather well lived or callously and insanely cast into nothingness in an instant….
The plaques honor the 2,606 people who were killed at this site in the name of religious violence, violence screamed into existence over rage centered in ideology, religion, obsession, stupid foreign policy and uncultivated minds set on programming putting those at its heart below the sense of our animal bretheren—completely illogical, totally deleterious and destructive and serving no positive results.
The September 11, 2001 terror attacks, perpetrated by makeshift pilots from Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan—who barely learned their flying skills in the United States under the watchful eye of our national security oversight—it is said—killed more people than in any other terror attack in human history*—totaling 2,996 lives—in New York City, Washington DC and Pennsylvania.
Whatever can be said of the grievances on the part of the attackers, about US dominance and hegemony in the Middle East since the Sykes Picot treaty, what did these acts of terrorism accomplish for the attackers and their movement? Nothing—nothing but hatred and more devastation—and even after allied nations conquered the people who hosted the training camps for the terrorist attackers, and then offered to rebuild their destroyed homelands—they are back at square one, violating the rights of their own people and threatening (in some cases) their neighbors—so, everyone involved in these fiascos of delusion and control, since the invasions of Afghanistan (the Russian and American invasions, actually)—has died in vain—apparently….
America curtailed her own rights, elected a fascist, is encountering more terrorism—ostensibly right up until yesterday—inspired by those we have spent trillions attempting to defeat—is still dominant in these foreign regions, the attackers were killed after they killed thousands, and one of their countries was thereafter devastated by American and Allied bombs—with many more of their tribe in other neighboring countries killed—probably in the millions, if one considers the Israeli genocide in Palestine, and before that, US war on Iraq which gave rise to ISIS, possibly the worst death cult ever coalesced in human history.
Obviously there is fault on all sides—including shared by the UK, Israel, mainland European countries supporting and benefiting from euro-hegemony in the regions in question, and on the side of Muslim countries which do not provide democracy for themselves, and which compromise well being among their populations and neighbors.
The solution will never be violence—which is only the guarantee of the same—evident in the news each week.
CA
Wheat Ridge, CO
*Some may dispute this claim, as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were accomplished over civilian populations—killing some 150,00,and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians—instantly—to convince the Japanese to discontinue their war efforts, which technically qualifies the attacks—as terrorism, because they were meant as a political statement, not an act of outright self-defense. Other educated opinions also suggest this act was completed to deter a Russian invasion on Japan and to warn the Russians in general of the power of the United States.
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