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I beleive we lost innocence that day and that the whole world changed.


I think it was ignorance rather than innocence we lost. Before 9/11 there was talk of "The End of History." As if, at the end of the cold war, important things were over. We in the US certainly acted that way, and we often still do. When celebrity babies and trials get around the clock coverage in an age when determined fanatics are out to destroy all of Western Civilization, there is a serious disconnect between reality and perception. When a significant percentage of the population under threat from Islamofacists is much more exercised over possible violations of the “rights” of terrorists than they are over the deaths of thousands perpetrated by those same terrorists, there is a severe lack of seriousness being demonstrated. When the leaders of the Islamofacists can openly say they plan to win by eroding America and the West’s will to win by continuing to kill our soldiers and civilians and then large numbers of our own “leaders” publicly demand we give them exactly what they want, it shows a short sightedness of epic proportions. September 11th was not the first attack in this war and it is certainly not the last, but it is an example of what is in store for all of Western Civilization if the threat is not recognized and countered.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.