"Always remember?" (GRAPHIC WARNING FOR THOSE WITH SENSITIVE DISPOSITION)

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35. So it's callous

to remind people that this didn't happen in a vacuum? That there are very real and very tragic consequences to US foreign policy?

So it's callous to note how we went to war with a country that posed NO threat to us using 9/11 as an excuse?

So it's callous to remind people that our government dropped the ball big time when everybody short of Bin Laden himself told them an attack was in the works?

You wanna know what's callous?

It's callous that we starved tens of thousands of Iraqi children by imposing crushing and inhumane sanctions on that country.

It's callous that we have all but abandoned the Palestinian people to whatever fate Israel chooses for them.

It's callous that we give financial and military support to the oppressive Saudi royal family.

It's callous that were ramping up to war with Iran.

We lost 3000 people and in turn "meted out justice" by killing tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis and locking up tens of thousands more in places like Abu Ghraib.

Yes, I remember well that tragic day and those who were lost but I also put it into perspective.