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When we take the time to reflect upon the 911 tragedy, few us ook beyond the patriotic speeches and news archives. Even fewer want to actually confront the ugly truth of 911, much less admit it. In the case of 911, the truth really does hurt, to the point of agony. But for some,it is far more comfortable and even convenient to become the proverbial ostrich who buries his head in a hole to avoid the painful realities of life. When it comes to 911, we have collectively become a nation in denial and here's why...
Over the last five years, "we the people" have been herded like sheep into a frenzy of revenge - to find, punish, and kill anyone and everyone we can remotely link to the 911 tragedy. Very few of us, including the media questioned the motives, explanations, or "evidence" presented by our leaders, because we were too focused on retribution. And while we were all distracted by the war mongering rhetoric about those invisible weapons of mass destruction, and fabricated "nuclear Iraqi threats" we were also diverted away from the most important issues and questions of all. Even to this day, not one American Senator or Congressman has had the courage to publicly ask "Why did this happen?" or "Why do people so far away hate America so much?" or more to the point... "What is the root cause of terrorism" The answers to these questions are quite ugly, But if you are a true American patriot, the truth, once confronted, is enlightening and provides a path to resolution of all the hatred and perhaps even peace in the world we must share with others.
First and foremost we should all look around and notice that countries like Argentina, Norway, Austria, Singapore, Mexico, The Netherlands, etc. do not have to spend billions of their tax dollars fighting terrorism or send their children, husbands, and fathers off to die in bloody wars chasing down terrorists and so now the question becomes "Why not? Frankly, these countries do not have a history of invading , occupying or secretly fomenting revolutions in other sovereign nations. Their foreign policies are not exploitive, nor provocative, and they do not get their way in the world by becoming the biggst bully on the block who gets his way at the end of a gun barrel or economic extortion (aka "trade sanctions).
Likewise, these nations who live without fear of terrorism do not openly deffy the United Nations, The World Court, or casually violate treaties whenever there is money to be made or lost (i.e. the Canadian softwood
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