7 years ago today

7 years ago today I was woken up by a friend from across the hall in my dorm because some people from a rogue group flew a plane into one of the tallest buildings in America, and he didn't have a television to watch this horrible story unfold. Before long, some people from a rogue group flew a second plane into the other tall building, a plane reportedly headed for the White House crashed into a field in PA, a plane allegedly hit the Pentagon, the tall buildings collapsed and thousands of Americans (and some non-Americans) were dead. The members of the rogue group were almost all Saudi, led by a US trained and formerly US funded militia leader (also Saudi) who was installed to defeat an intangible form of government in its physical form of the Soviets in Afghanistan many years previous. 7 years later we have not caught him, have scaled back our efforts to find him, and have instead started an unfounded war and tortured people in a country almost 1000 miles away from the country where that US trained and formerly US funded Saudi is most likely thought to reside. We also haven't so much as had a quiet word with the Saudis over what their rogue citizens have done. Think of it like this: In 2021 a group of rogue Americans hijack a jet and fly it into the Burj Al-Arab in Dubai. The UAE spend the next five years invading Canada and torturing citizens, eventually leaving 50,000+ dead.

How does that make any sense? This is a crucial time for America when our President has not made us safer, or really kept us safe at all and has done his best to make the world more dangerous for Americans. We have one candidate for President who wants to "stay the course" when it's clearly worked so well for us thus far, and one candidate who wants to shift our battle to catch the US trained and formerly US funded militia leader who started this debacle in the first place, and then stop invading sovereign nations (which only helps to make more terrorists) and work on repairing the cracks in our own country.

Honestly, which one sounds like the best for America? (and if the fucking Republicans can use 9/11 for political purposes, so can I. So GFY.)