This is really a FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY.

And for them it is. It‘s an opportunity for them to do whatever they wanted to do before, but couldn‘t get away with. It‘s an opportunity for them to smear anyone who criticizes them as disloyal. It‘s an opportunity for them to become much more powerful than they ever could be in peacetime. Leaders love war. That‘s why there‘s so much of it.

It‘s understandably hard for normal people to come to terms with this. It‘s scary to believe your leaders may secretly be, uh, not so sad if you die. But all you have to do is listen to them, and they‘ll tell you.

Can we change this? Maybe. But the first step in changing reality is facing it, no matter how ugly and frightening it is.

Happy September 11th.