Today the world, or more specifically the USA, is marking what they have come to call their darkest day since Pearl Harbour. I find myself listening to songs and watching music videos of songs dedicated to that day. From the serene and thoughtful, to the aggressive and instigating. Toby Keith's My List and Alan Jackson's Where were you, to Toby Keith's Angry American and Darryl Worley's Have you Forgotten. Two strong contrasts, one type wondering what the reaction should be, the other taking the strongest possible reaction and amplifying it. I am left wondering what, 2 years later and two wars later, the world and the US should be thinking, doing, and remembering. To some the memories are that which will flash on our screen, to others, the images of the wars that followed.
I wonder what great men would think about the ensuing activities both in and outside the US. Would Martin Luther King have wanted the war against Iraq when it is clear the reasons for going were void. It would seem, of course, that hindsight is 20/20, but I doubt that even if foresight had been as clear that anything would have changed. The US is bent on stomping out all threats that have an even modest benefit to themselves, and as soon as the reward is diminished they are happy to bring in others to share the burden. I do not mean to diminish the memory of this day, simply make sure everyone remembers what has been lost since that day, and while it may not be counted in lives, just as it was done post Pearl Harbour to the Japanese, those who could be named as an enemy, have been, and those liberties that could be weakened, have.
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