The Real Tragedy of 9-11 was not the Attacks

The real tragedy is the fact that the USA has taken no lesson whatsoever from the horrors of that terrible event. Or maybe, even worse America learned the wrong lesson entirely.

It is common and popular for patriotic Americans to say about 9-11 'Never again' and that usually means that the US must ramp up our military and force our will on the people of the Middle East. In other words, the actions usually being referred to as a means to ensure that a 9-11 type attack never occurs again are sadly the same actions that the US and western powers have taken historically that led to 9-11 in the first place!

What I mean, is the answer to the question "Why do they hate us so much?" Of course 'they' in this context usually means Muslims in general to the patriotic American asking the question, but in fact Muslims in general do not hate 'us'. The relatively few radical Islamist's who hated us enough to sacrifice themselves in order to make us 'feel their pain' in the year 2001 were in fact reacting to centuries of grief that had been imposed on innocent Muslims by 'Radical Christians'. And before you take a world of offense think of this!

The radical Christian Crusades were every bit as evil as if Hitler himself had WON WWII and imposed his will on the entire American continent! Endless slaughter rape and subjugation of Muslims by Christians supposedly in the name of Jesus Christ, but in fact only for power and greed. And 'we' were just getting started! Then came the colonialization of the Middle East by the parents of the USA, the United Kingdom and 'christian' Europe. When enslaving Islam got old western powers picked puppet leaders of the various middle eastern countries (which they had made up maps for that had never existed historically) and then still continued to subjugate the Muslim people through their pet princes.

The icing on the cake was when the 'Christian' world decided to deal with their 'Jewish problem' by shoving the newly invented 'Israel' down the throats of the Palestinians. The Christian (good man, rotten president) Carter was sadly clueless during the Iranian revolution, not to realize that the revolutionaries were every bit as much in the right as were the Americans during their revolution.

So, that is the reason that they hate us so much and 'they' are not 99.9% of the almost 2 Billion Muslims in the world. Muslims who resort to terrorism number only a few thousand and the ones involved in 9-11 were not looking for some 'pie in the sky' afterlife. They were mostly highly educated Saudis who despised their puppet leaders and were living in Afghanistan in exile. They would have just as soon done to the Saudi Monarchy, or London or Paris or Moscow or Munich what they did to the USA on that fateful day, but outside of the US the security was already too amped up to pull off such an outrageous horror.

There was nothing good about the evil attack on 9-11 and if there is a heaven and a hell then surely the attackers are in eternal flames and the victims sleep with the angels. As we struggle to extricate ourselves from Afghanistan the world must remember that, that war was won within two years of its start! There was peace in Afghanistan and the Taliban had lost almost all support. But then we pulled most of our troops out and attacked and occupied Iraq for no good reason at all. In that war we sacrificed more of our brave heroes in the military than the number of innocent civilians killed on 9-11! And estimates are that a quarter million or more innocent Iraqis were killed.

The fact that the US and the Christian world  are still pursuing the same strategy that eventually boiled over into the attacks in 2001 is the real tragedy of 9-11.