So where are we five years on?
I’ve had pretty little to say about this day over the years, The day after was a big long spiel. But I’ll go back to what I said a few days before 9/11 in 2002:
Has it really been a year? I can close my eyes and remember it like it was yesterday. And what has been accomplished in that year? Next to nothing… Sure, they’ve cleaned up Ground Zero and stormed Afghanistan but really, we’re no further on than we were on September 12th 2001. The main bad guys are still at large and attention has shifted to Iraq.
What are you going to do on Wednesday? I think I’ll have a few quiet moments at approximately 9am EST then get on with my life. I’m kinda glad I’m not in America for that event, as I’m sure it will be blown way out of proportion in a shower of red, white and blue. Don’t get me wrong, to each their own, but life goes on, all things must pass. That’s all I will say on that subject. For now…
So, it’s been two years since the two planes hit the two towers of the World Trade Center. How much has been accomplished in those two years?
The Taliban were driven out of Afghanistan, but most of it remains a No-Go zone. Iraq was “conquered†but soldiers are still dying today on the lawless streets. Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein still remain at large.
And that’s it.
And apart from Saddam being captured and now currently tried in a show trial, not a lot has been done in 2 years. 2004 and 2005 passed without much thought and today I’ll probably do what I did every year since then, pause for a moment before 9am and then get on with my life