absolutely brilliant

[chelidon]

My Ravishing Partner pointed this article out to me just now...I find it absolutely brilliant, insightful, and quite profoundly tragic:

An Alternate 9/11 History

It answers the question, "what would it be like if we had had a real president over the last six years?"

Comments

[christeos-pir.livejournal.com]

Amusing, but it seems to me that it presupposed a lot of character changes on the part of people in other places as well. In case the author forgot, some of those characters singing Kumbaya in this piece have hated us, and each other, longer than since 2001. Still, even just *some* of those alternatives would have been nice.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, it's a total utopian straw-man fantasy, but it does point out how different some things might have been if we'd had some real leadership here...in particular, if we'd done the job right in Afghanistan instead of getting mired in Iraq, etc. But hey, live and learn, right? Hmm, apparently not ;-p

[alobar.livejournal.com]

The fairy tale neglects to mention that the VP was probably one of the people who saw to it that planes were not intercepted by the Air Force. The World Trade Center was brought down by controlled detonation, not kerosene fores from jet fuel. Since at least one of the highjackers is alive and well in Sudi Arabia, lots of suspicion about who was or was not actually on the planes.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

I've seen some good analysis on both sides of that question, and for me, the jury is still out -- from my own limitied knowledge of structural engineering, metalurgy and demolition, it would take something of a minor miracle for things to have gone precisely as they did in the official accounts, but sometimes very weird improbable shit happens, too. Certainly what happened was suspicious, and, like the JFK assassination, we may never know for sure, or rather, the full truth may never be openly revealed. But regardless of whether the gubmint had anything to do with the event itself, and to what level if they did, they sure were quick to take advantage of the opportunity to stoke up fear, erode freedoms, consolidate political gain, and move this country further towards a police state. Funny, that.

The piece I linked to is a fairy tale, and a straw man, but what it says to me is that things could have been different, in so many ways. I don't trust any of the republicrats, but I have to say this bunch in there now really seems to be scraping the bottom of the scum barrel, and that's saying something.

I feel like I have been kicked in the gut.

[storm-and-raven.livejournal.com]

"Five years after that awful September day, even Bush's fiercest critics have learned an important lesson: leadership counts. Imagine if we'd done the opposite of these things. This country—and the world—would be in a heap of trouble."

*Sobs uncontrollably*

Re: I feel like I have been kicked in the gut.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Yeah, I hear ya. That punchlne got me, too.

We all do what we can, where and when we can. Another world is coming, and we can hope, and work to make it one we'd want to live in and give to our children.