In 50 years will people say "Happy 9/11 bro?"

[MrGrave]

It seems strange how easily we forget people that have died in horrible tragedy. How often do you think about the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the earthquake in China or the hurricane in New Orleans?

Somehow 9/11 lives on, but not for the dead. Only their families remember them now. 9/11 lives on for the agenda it serves and the questions that were never answered. No one but Pat Robertson thinks a living entity caused these other disasters. Something about 9/11 remains tragic, whether it's that truth was defeated by lies or that a few flight school failures managed to infiltrate the strongest nation on earth, people are still upset.

Not upset in a real way, upset in a selfish way. 9/11 is food, it gives people talking points, it gives them an excuse to demean others for not agreeing with them. It gives them an excuse to hate people. It gives them an excuse to be outraged again, and people love outrage. They're addicted to it.

I have my own agenda with 9/11. I pretend to care about the dead so I can point out double standards. How come you can question Obama's birthplace but not 9/11? For instance. The truth is I can't talk about 9/11 without mentioning my agenda on the subject, because honestly I don't care about the dead anymore. It's incredibly disrespectful to say that but I live across the street from a mormon temple and a block away from a mormon tabernacle, and right now people are going in herds to what I can only assume is some memorial event. Do they care? No, of course not. They're just pretending to, to show off what great Americans they are.

A few conservatives have been claiming Obama is doing with a pen what Osama failed to do with suicide bombers. That the deaths of 3000 Americans were wasted because Obama won the election. I would disagree, Osama bin Laden never failed, he succeeded perfectly. His intention was to castrate the country, not send it into a panic. He wasn't hoping the meak would defeat the patriots on that day. To the contrary, he knew there would be a great swell of nationalism in the country. His intention was the bankrupt the country through foreign wars, and he succeeded.

And now Obama struggles to mend the mistakes our country made out of foolish pride (while, I admit, serving the interests that put him in office) and people have the balls to claim he's simply undoing everything this country managed to hold onto when the towers fell. This tragic event has never stopped being a pivot point for conservative talking points. Anyone that disagreed with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan was disrespecting the dead. Anyone that questioned what really happened on 9/11 was disrespecting the dead. What could be more disrespectful than using tragedy to feed your partisanship? Stop pretending to give a damn, it's insulting.