Americans would be wise to never forget 9/11/2001 was the day when US Middle East policy blew back on the nation's financial and political capitals.
If Americans should never stop mourning (and avenging) that holy day of inherently "good" and "exceptional" America's unjust martyrdom, we should also remember events that led to that fateful reckoning:
"+ The US-backed Latin American 9/11 (the Washington-supported coup in Chile on that day in 1973).
"+ The ferocious 'Highway of Death,' when US warplanes risked mid-air collisions in their rush to mercilessly slaughter thousands of surrendered Iraq troops retreating from Kuwait in 1991.
"+ US economic sanctions that killed at least half a million Iraqi children ('a price worth paying,' according to Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeline Albright) by the mid-1990s
"+ US funding and equipping of extremist Islamic-fundamentalist forces (for Cold War, anti-Soviet purposes) in Afghanistan starting in the late 1970s and 1980s, creating the very forces that would “attack America” in 2001."
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021