I’ve little to say on this third anniversary, except to note with sadness that much of the nation still doesn’t seem to realize that we’re at war. Moreover, many of those lacking that realization include much of the so-called mainstream press (as exemplified by the latest fraud and shenanigans at CBS News), and much of one of the major parties, including its candidate for president. In the midst of watching Islamic fanatics slaughter schoolchildren and take down airplanes in Russia, he proposes a Department of Wellness.
As I’ve said many times, I have many problems with the currrent administration, even including at many times its execution of the war in which we’re unwillingly engaged, and wish that there were a realistic alternative to it–I’d vote for it in a heartbeat. But in nominating John Kerry (and being congenitally unable to nominate a serious wartime candidate, like Joe Lieberman), the Democrats leave me little choice, because as long as we haven’t addressed the root causes of the events of three years ago (and no, they’re not poverty, or American imperialism, cultural or otherwise), I will not feel safe with anything resembling today’s Democrat Party in power.
A general once said that war consists a bunch of shitty choices. Apparently that often applies to politics as well, at least in a two-party system. As such, my choice will have to remain the man who stood amid a pile of rubble almost three years ago, and told us that he heard us, and that soon those who had created that pile would be hearing us too.
[Update]
Unsurprisingly, Glenn has some thoughts as well, with some pictures that are a sobering reminder of that day.