19 years after one horrific September 11….
Originally posted in TFF https://transnational.live/
Lund, Sweden — September 11, 2020 by Jan Oberg
Modified here and there by Gordon Dumoulin
19 years after the horrific September 11 ! We must never forget innocent individual victims of war and other violence.
But there is more to the day September 11 and what has been the aftermath ?
On 9/11, 1906, the nonviolent movement led by Gandhi was born in South Africa — TFF Associate Chaiwat Satha-Anand wrote about it on The Transnational 15 years ago.
On 9/11, 1973, the coup d’etat in Chile took place with heavy US involvement, leading to the death of President Salvador Allende and the Pinochet dictatorship.
And on 9/11, 2001, targets in New York and Washington representing the economic, military and political power of the US Empire were hit, killing almost 3000 people (around 12% non-US citizens).
The US response was to initiate — with the attack on Afghanistan on “10/7” — the Global War On Terror.
The major results of this, exceptionally counter-productive, war has been a vast increase in terrorism, a minimum of 37 million people displaced in 8 countries, countless dead and wounded people — innocent victims like those in New York and Washington but never commemorated, often not even reported. Remember “We don’t do body counts”…
In addition, the Global War of Terror has served as a major factor behind the decline of the US in the world — think factors such as legitimacy, leadership, trustworthiness and respect for international law. Or, think the gigantic economic costs and hatred against the US — and think countries turning their backs to it.
TFF has published hundreds of articles and videos related to “9/11” and the Global War On Terror — you’ll find some of them here:
Major articles on the old and present homepage
Imagine instead…
• that the US/Bush administration had chosen to analyze why 9/11 happened and why those particular targets were hit,
• that they had then employed political and moral power instead of worldwide military mass-killing out of proportion to the event.
In other words, imagine how the US would have been compelled to think had it not had a worldwide military second to none that corrupted its mind.
Or, imagine…
• that the US had chosen to prioritize much larger domestic killers of US lives at the time — the roughly 30 000 deaths caused by revolver violence and the 300 000 deaths by obesity…
If that had been the road chosen — and quite a few of us proposed exactly that back then — the world and the US itself might likely have been a better place today.
But where are we standing today 9/11, 2020 ?? The US has declared a new enemy and is busy placing new ticking bombs… stimulating a new war-driven episode of instability with a potential risk for a new generation of innocent victims.