I’ve pointedly avoided all the 9/11 festivities because I sense in them something outside their intentions, a foreboding built on a foundation of partisanism and division that casts the people we are supposed to be remembering in the rolls of political props or stage sets and the vast crater that Ground Zero remains as the stage.
The president is a chief member of the production team, as his primtetime speech tonight made clear, again using 9/11 to push his failed Iraq policies. Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condie Rice have all taken their turns, as well.
But the reality is that the administration has askes us to sacrifice little on a personal level for his war. We take our tax cuts and complain about gas prices even as our soldiers die in Iraq and Afghaistan — and the entirety of Washington panders to ensure we can remain fat and happy.
As we drift off into an oblivious sleep, we fear that we are in constant danger, not seeing or perhaps not minding that the freedoms we’ve always said we hold dear are eroding or being converted into consumer values.
It is a sad legacy five years later.
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Hank Kalet 