...the war goes on ....

A PASSING THOUGHT-
"... any worldview that was radically altered by the September 11th attacks must have been radically mistaken to begin with. But anyone whose understanding of the world was substantially correct would not have had his or her overall view of things shaken by those events." - Lew Rockwell, Huffington Post

So, when Our Leader says (and he does, repeatedly) that "...everything changed on 9/11..." perhaps he is speaking mainly for himself.

AND A MORE PERSISTENT THOUGHT-
The other day, as I was sitting at a local watering hole with some friends, I managed to gather unto myself from the fog which is my head, a thought: that the topic of the war does not arise often amongst our citizens. They talk about a lot of things, including the election coming on, and mention the war as a voting prompt, but do not discuss what is happening in it.

I think we don't truly understand it. What's happening over there? What are the troops accomplishing? What are they trying to accomplish? Has any objective been met in the last two years?

And since we are not paying for it, but putting it on our children's credit cards, it doesn't affect our pockets.

And since no one gets drafted for it, we don't worry about how it will affect our families.

And there are no shortages of anything.

Maybe we don't talk about this war because most of us don't own it. Maybe it's not our war. Maybe it's just a war for certain cliques of people in our society, not for all of us.
--Bud

UPDATE:
Our friend, John recommends this article, and we agree: GEYER ARTICLE