What a weekend

This weekend was the 10th anniversary of the Sept 11th terrorist attacks it doesnt really seem like its been 10 years. It seems like only a year or so ago this all happened and now were 10 years past the date. This got me to wondering, are things really any better than they were before the attacks? Are we any safer or more secure? Did we give up some freedom for the sense of security? I have pondered these thoughts over the weekend and still dont really have an answer.

If I had to give an answer I am not sure it would be yes to any except the last one. It seems to me while we may have the semblance of security we simply traded one risk for another. In the ten years since the attacks we have been in two wars one of which is slowly ending and the other still going. We have spent billions of dollars to pay for these wars and borrowed billions more for other homeland security measures that may or may not have made us safer but they certainly have been at the least inconvenient to most and worse to others.

Our economy is in shambles and we dont have the available credit to buy our way out of it even if that would work which is another subject in itself. Who knows what the situation would have been had we not gone to war with those two countries one of which has nothing we need or want and the other has something we want but arent getting it seems. On a side note all those idiots who were going on and on about the Iraq war being about oil....well its pretty much over and Im not aware of any special oil prices we got for our efforts and it seems the price of oil just keeps going up or down but pays no attention to Iraq producing or not. I would say if we were supposed to get oil from Iraq it really hasn't started getting to my gas station yet.

As for Afghanistan they have nothing we want. We have plenty of dirt and rocks here in the US without needing some of theirs. If you dont believe that just take a drive on I40 from Texas to California and you will see more than enough wasteland to get your fill. So now we seem stuck in a country no one wants but the poor devils who are unlucky enough to be born there. I still say the easiest way to have solved the whole Osama Bin Laden thing right at the beginning was one small nuc on the mountain He was hiding under and problem solved. That is alot cheaper than the billions we are spending now and one B2 bomber flying there and back wouldnt risk nearly as many lives as we have lost in that mess. Besides who really cares if a mountain in Afghanistan glows for the next few decades or so, maybe the country needed a night light. That would also have been a very pointed lesson to anyone else thinking of following in Osama's shoes. If you really annoy us we will fry you and be done with it. An objet lesson in the consequences of pissing off the worlds major super power would have gone well to any one elses thoughts and been a good thing. It's not a bad idea to just stomp someone now and again to remind the rest of them what can happen and just might again.

Oh well it's done now and were stuck with it. I guess its a good thing I'm not in charge perhaps the world doesnt really need a glowing mountain.....but it would be cool to see from a distance. I guess thats enough from me. I will leave this post just the way the government has been for years now.......pointless.