Damned If You Do..

Everybody remembers where they were on 9/11/01. Hopefully years can still pass before the quote itself becomes something cliche' like "Oh, Im spiritual". Whatever, the point is, on the day itself we were all wrapped up in questioning what was occuring and why it possibly was, before we realized how united we would become. But the whole world stopped. The whole world focused it's attention one place. The whole world rallied around and for the United States.
It was the day after, this day, that brought to the surface things more substantial than everything else: there seemed to be a shared pain.
In the melting pot that is the U.S, the list of reasons to be divided is more exhaustive than I could put in a post. And the reasons 'why' are just as pointless, too. Because we have a reached a place where it just 'is'. What bindes us now is the fact that our country is so reviled and hated that everything we stand for wants to be eliminated. It has nothing to do with your politics or religion or lifestyle anymore. We are hated because. If we are religious, its not the same God as this enemy chooses. If we are secular, we are seen as immoral, lacking a value standard and repulsive. So either way, we are 'damned if we do, and damned if we dont'.
This is a great day to gain perspective on what is important. Because in the long run it doesnt matter.
Being afraid is paralyzing. Turning the anger inward and bickering amongst ourselves over making policy based off compassion is detrimental. Wasting money on expansive government programs that serve no purpose other than lining corporate pockets is useless. This is why not spreading our military too thin or taking it's funding away for other trivialities and not dismantling the CIA over bureaucracy is very important. There is one thing we all share now and its just as pervasive, if not boiling over as it was those years ago. We do have an enemy, this is the nature of things; the enemy should not be within.
(read down two post on CIA, if interested)