It's the 11th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. The media here in the U.S. are repeating taped interviews of survivors. I have no problem with that; it was a tragedy we shouldn't forget. But I'm disgusted with the U.S. response to the attacks. They have used the attacks as an excuse for 11 years of a vague "war on terror" which seems never ending and which keeps expanding to conveniently include invasions and bombings of ever more countries. Instead, the U.S. should've taken stock of its foreign policy and figured out why these other countries hate them; then made adjustments to become that "kinder gentler nation" they've only talked about.
The 9/11 attacks were motivated by religion and nationalism. The response has been motivated by the same things.
While I commend the JWs for their refusal to participate in war, they do so not out of a hatred for war but because they have allegiance to their imaginary kingdom which they think is soon going to wage the ultimate global war in which they will rejoice at the slaughter of most of humankind.
In my latest blog: War! I imagine a world in which religion and patriotism no longer have a stranglehold on us so that we can live in peace.