Federalize It Or Let It Go...Ten Years On
source: http://deardirtyamerica.blogspot.com/2011/09/federalize-it-or-let-it-go-ten-years-on.html
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Dan Rudy - Portland
Well my dearly fellow Dirty Americans, looking ten years on... ten years upon the still-stagnant blank mark that remains Ground Zero. That we discovered a schooner in its midst might be the only bit of fluff in an otherwise murky cloud.
What have we accomplished? Vengeance, certainly. Bin Laden with two caps and a burial at sea. His organization Al Qaeda disjointed (though not quite a shambles). Longtime nemesis Saddam with a rope around his neck... not sure where he's been buried (or else scattered) particularly. The world America's oyster, presumably?
Possibly not. But there's plenty of mulled whine about on that subject, today especially. One decade on, I think it best we pay our last respects to this tragedy that has so molded our current national identity. As the title reads, either make it a federal holiday (of mourning; eventually to be the foundation of future three-day weekends and time-and-a-halves) or let it go. It's been a shitty enough decade for America. What with the recessive economy, the dual+ wars, the oil spills and Katrinas and Tea Party phenomenon. The ten-year embarrassment that has been our shared cultural dilemma. Namely, how many buckets of blood for every drop; how many eyes for an eye?
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http://deardirtyamerica.blogspot.com/2011/09/federalize-it-or-let-it-go-ten-year...
Well my dearly fellow Dirty Americans, looking ten years on... ten years upon the still-stagnant blank mark that remains Ground Zero. That we discovered a schooner in its midst might be the only bit of fluff in an otherwise murky cloud.
What have we accomplished? Vengeance, certainly. Bin Laden with two caps and a burial at sea. His organization Al Qaeda disjointed (though not quite a shambles). Longtime nemesis Saddam with a rope around his neck... not sure where he's been buried (or else scattered) particularly. The world America's oyster, presumably?
Possibly not. But there's plenty of mulled whine about on that subject, today especially. One decade on, I think it best we pay our last respects to this tragedy that has so molded our current national identity. As the title reads, either make it a federal holiday (of mourning; eventually to be the foundation of future three-day weekends and time-and-a-halves) or let it go. It's been a shitty enough decade for America. What with the recessive economy, the dual+ wars, the oil spills and Katrinas and Tea Party phenomenon. The ten-year embarrassment that has been our shared cultural dilemma. Namely, how many buckets of blood for every drop; how many eyes for an eye?
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http://deardirtyamerica.blogspot.com/2011/09/federalize-it-or-let-it-go-ten-year...
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