Nine One One
This seems to be a day for recollections of 9/11. At the time, I was working at the Mall of America from opening to closing every day, for a failing family business. I was losing money working 78 hours a week. I showed up at the Mall of America, and it was closed, for fear of a terrorist attack. That was the first I heard the news. My first reaction: I wished one of the planes had hit the Mall of America instead, and put me out of my misery.
2001 wasn't a real good year for me. But I had no business thinking that. I was just miserable. I didn't mean to belittle those who actually died.
9/11/2001 is shaping up as one of the worst days in history, and not just because of all the innocent dead. Even the Arab street had mixed feelings about the 9/11 attack, and the rest of the world was with us. But America has frittered away all of that overwhelming global public support and more, and is now less popular than at any time in our history. And 9/11 also put our government on a path to the invasion of Iraq, which has had the unintended consequence of fostering terrorism in Iraq and England and Spain and Pakistan. And perhaps worst of all, our invasion of Iraq may have been the cause of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the over-extension of our military in Iraq is certainly the reason Iran feels relatively safe from military action by us to stop them.
10:48:48 PM 
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