Operation mission: the cleanening

Getting my greyhound on, planning on kicking it at my moms today and my dads tomorrow, in Longview and toutle, respectively.

September 11th was 10 years ago, tomorrow. It brings up the concept of war. It makes me wonder about the bush family and how they raised their children. Patton and the sand pebbles, and John Wayne mythology. Church, and the severe delineation of right and wrong. War has always been an amplification of stupid squabbles to me, that should never be brought to a national level.

God, that is a gross simplification, but better cynical and disillusioned than slaughtering innocent people. Then I think of the Chris hedges book, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, and winder how other families discuss this stuff, or if they do at all. Abstraction is devious, wont to simplification and distance. It has always factored into our thought process though. My brother would read me the world almanac as a child, an we tended to generalize and statisticize to a level of empiricism and extremity that seems quite unnatural. For all of it's accompanying blemishes, this ability to abstract seems so important when we consider the world today, an it seems a shame not to see our leaders discuss it's benefits.

So when we look back at 9/11, and consider the forces that bent our will and anger into all out war on two fronts, you have to wonder. You just do. Wikileaks makes you wonder. The apparent inability of Obama to change who governs our finances is incredibly disturbing. Incredibly. But nearly as or more disturbing is the questions we have to ask ourselves. Could bush have been right about invading Iraq? Not linked at all to 9/11 (most likely), but is there a tie between that and the newest rebellions of the Arab spring? Did we jostle that with the toppling or saddam? We will never truly know, and who is to say yet if things will be better or worse??

Do the power elite think this abstractly? Do they tryst to discuss their maintenance of vast wealth? Would someone actually die if the rich were dethroned? Nobody needs a billion dollars or a private jet. Every single person in the entire world deserves free food, shelter, and medical care. These are what I think about on the days before 9/11. If I think about the specifics, the real people, the families, the heroes who helped (and who are being shafted without help because of medical problems in the aftermath), my eyes well up, and my sincere desires to quantify and abstract fail utterly. My heart goes out to all of you.
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