The world changed on 9/11.
And the U.S. changed it.
The terrorists didn't change it.
The 19 men on those 4 planes committed a terrorist attack that killed thousands of people.
But they didn't change the world.
We changed it.
We could've dealt with the attack with maturity and intelligence.
With practically the whole world behind us, we could've increased security in our own country where it counts, and we could've conducted a full scale retaliation in Afghanistan, including finding Osama and shooting his cock off.
Instead, we had the happy monkey-boy cowboy President and his legions of old, chickenhawk, neocon scumbuckets seize the tragedy for their own personal and global ambitions, and they diverted us from everything we should've been doing, and we ended up putting all of our resources and attention into a completely fucking irrelevant, illogical occupation that only increases the diameter of the bull's eye on our back every day our boots remain on the soil.
After 9/11, this country became a weird pseudo-fascist nation of Chicken Littles. Suddenly, dissent and debate was unpatriotic. The press became the mouthpiece of a pro-war, pro-aggression administration that fishnetted the whole country into a non-sensical debacle.
We let those 19 men and Al-Qaeda win. We gave them exactly what they wanted. We let them stir us into a frenzy in which our freedoms have diminished, and the disdain for us has increased exponentially. We've helped to unite most of the Arab world against us, by murdering thousands of innocent people and committing the same atrocities that were commited against us, under the guise of a "war on terror."
The difference between their "terrorist attacks" and our "military offensives" is that they kill 100% innocent people, while we only kill about 80% innocent people. And that's the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. What a fucking joke.
This anniversary merely reminds me how fucking stupid and apathetic this country is, and what an ugly place the world has become.
Someone please just fucking shoot me into outer space.