Joe speaks out

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(05-30-2020, 03:43 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Lol not sure the combined hate for Islam is exactly what I meant but I get what you’re saying. Definitely the greatest feeling of a united country during my lifetime.

Yeah, 9/11 wasn't really a great unifer of Americans if you were Muslim or you weren't psyched to send the troops into an endless war with unrelated countries and entities...ah, but that's getting into a whole 'nother ball of wax.

(05-30-2020, 03:53 PM)jason Wrote: Isn't it sad that it takes something like a big ass terrorist attack to pull our heads outta our rears, and realize we're all really on the same side?

Maybe it was different for me, but I recall the post-9/11 division being between Americans who wanted to go put a boot in the asses of "who did this" people who thought creating a power vacuum in the middle east (again) would be a bad idea (again), and people disagreeing over whether the government should be monitoring us or not.

It could be just coincidental timing or me being flat-out wrong, but 9/11 seemed like the first thing that really emphasized the left vs right in my mind.  The liberals were going to just surrender and leave us open to attack and the neo-cons were going to send poor people off to fight and die in an endless war for oil (with god's blessing, of course).

But I was in college and later grad school outside of NYC during all this so it's possible things seemed a lot more unified and awesome elsewhere.