Today is September 11, 2010, the ninth anniversary of 9-11. Back on September 11, 2001 America was a proud and confident country. Yes, there were problems (the internet bubble had just burst, and a recession was looming), but Americans were secure in the knowledge that they were the most powerful country on earth.
Today, we watch an insecure America, rendered impotent by a nine year long “war on terror” (as though you can fight an inanimate object), with high unemployment, and massive government deficits.
Even worse, America is no longer the country of it’s founding, secure in the knowledge that they are right.
We witness the absurd spectacle of someone named Terry Jones, a self-proclaimed Florida Pastor who announced that he and his flock would burn the Quran, the Muslim holy book, to mark 9-11.
Before this week, no-one had ever heard of Terry Jones. His congregation apparently has about 50 members (although the true number may be closer to 30). He is irrelevant. If me and 50 of my friends decided to go and do something stupid, like turn over cars, would it make the national news? Of course not, because I am nobody.
And yet this nobody was covered by the national media as though he was somebody. He isn’t, and shame on CNN, and all the rest, for giving air time to this guy.
And shame on President Obama for weighing in on this “controversy”. Why is the President of the most powerful nation on earth wasting his time commenting on the proposed actions of some nut in Florida? There are millions of unemployed, thousands of young men and women have died in senseless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet the President is worried about some guy’s barbecue?
This is a sad day for the once great nation of America. Instead of worrying about important matters, we now worry about irrelevancies.
It’s a sad day indeed.
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