Is it Time to Stop Wallowing in 9-11?

Okay, I admit that we as a species -- and as a citizenry -- like to commemorate stuff at what we think of as significant intervals. Ten years is a big deal to us, so I am willing to cut the media some slack when they are put stuff on the air to mark the ten year anniversary of the attacks on 9-11.

But enough is enough. You can hardly find a channel that isn't doing something to mark the date. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Cartoon Network had some kind of special about it.

Mark Karlin over at Buzzflash has an excellent editorial today, It's Long Past Time to Get Over 9-11, and don't forget to check out Connsortium News' A 9-11 What if to see a great analysis of what could have happened if we had not had a trigger happy gunslinger-of-evil at the top of the heap (Darth Cheney) and a rootin' tootin' cowboy moron as his ventriloquist-dummy stooge (Baby Doc Bush).

A few years back one of my Republican friends (back when I still had some--they've all either awakened to the light and become liberals or have shunned me as the anathema that I am...) allowed as to how glad he was that Bush was president instead of Gore when 9-11 happened.

I told him that if Gore had been president, 9-11 wouldn't have happened. He didn't like that very much, but I believe it to be true. Or if it did happen, the response would have been very different. For one thing, I don't think we'd be under the fascist thumb of the Homeland Security Act, we wouldn't be bogged down in unwinnable wars in the Middle East, and the economy would be in much better shape.