That is the unfortunate title of Chapter 1 of a lenghty 13 chapter report put out yesterday by the 9/11 Commission. It’s sending chills through my body as I read it, I tell you. The report, which I have yet to read in its entirety, has an amazing amount of information that I’m sure will be priceless in the years to come.
I’ve only started to read Chapters 1, 12 & 13. Why only those chapters?
Well, Chapter 1 is filled w/ all the juicy parts about the unknown. Yes, that is a very horrible thing to say, but it’s my honest reaction when I read it. It is the unknown because I was not up in the airplane and our government has the tendency to conceal all audio & flight data from the public for sake of national security. It’s a subconscious reaction that I’m sure everyone experiences. Right?
Chapter 12 & Chapter 13 are quite possibly the most important chapters in the entire report. Everyone should at least skim through them because it’s the future! They are titled “What To Do?” & “How To Do It?,” respectively. Since terrorism is here to stay for the foreseeable future, it’s very important to read what the most powerful country in the world-the country with the largest army, largest stockpile of nuclear weapons & only God knows what else—is thinking about in terms of fighting terrorism.
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However, we have to be very, very careful that those schools that North America would fund in developing countries aren't North America-centric, the way education was Euro-centric for the longest time. It would be very easy to "teach" and "breed" loyalty to capitalism and North America, rather than allow the given education to complement their own society and cultural beliefs.
In any case, it's always reassuring to hear Americans denouncing such violent recommendations as you allude to in this post, and pushing for peaceful resolutions in a rational and humane manner. I only wish all Americans shared your sentiments, but I suppose people wouldn't really be people if we all thought the same way.
Whatever happens, I hope the rational and humane outweighs the irrational, fear and desire for "revenge".
Ya seriously, man. Very shocking--all of it.
It's almost like the report is written not by bastard politicians, but by a great novelist (with a twisted creative sense).
although all of it curdles my blood...one sentence sends a cold bolt of shivers down my spine:
"Don't worry Dad...if it happens, it'll be very fast".
it's not a movie script. it's not a novel. those are the words of someone, someone with a name and a home and a car and friends and parents...who knew they were going to die. my god, my god.
"-choose your nightmare-" - Heart of Darkness.
Just crazy, I tell you:
"At 9:00, Lee Hanson received a second call from his son Peter:
It’s getting bad, Dad—A stewardess was stabbed—They seem to have
knives and Mace—They said they have a bomb—It’s getting very bad
on the plane—Passengers are throwing up and getting sick—The
plane is making jerky movements—I don’t think the pilot is flying the
plane—I think we are going down—I think they intend to go to
Chicago or someplace and fly into a building—Don’t worry, Dad—
If it happens, it’ll be very fast—My God,my God."