Obligatory Thing about 9/11

I wanted to delay writing this post for a while. I have many thoughts that I wanted to share about the 9/11 10-year commemoration-- most of it is boring.
But yesterday I realized something for the first time since 9/11: as much as I respect liberals such as Henry Rollins, when they say that 9/11 was a great opportunity to reevaluate the Unites States' foreign policy it's basically code for "fuck Israel." I tend to lean toward supporting Israel because I think that islam is utterly insane and malignant (as I have stated on this blog and on stages) but I don't really care much about the issue beyond "stop killing Israeli Jews, you morons."
Actually, stop killing Christians, as well. A few months ago I spoke with an Armenian Christian who was a guard in Israel. He was the guard in my former apartment complex in Studio City. I asked him, "Don't you get bored with this job?" His response: "No, I get to talk with a lot of people and see the sights on the roof of this complex. It keeps me awake for a different reason than when I was in Israel." "What do you mean 'different reason?'" "Well, my job in Israel was much less interesting, but if I fell asleep I knew that when I woke up there was going to be a muslim's knife at my throat."

Also, yesterday I heard something repeatedly that has disturbed me since 9/11/01: "America/ the world changed." It's not so much a statement of fact-- it did, in fact, change for the worse in terms of people's ATTITUDES-- as it is an excuse for something. I have stated on this blog that even before 9/11 occurred I declared to my professor that America's threats had changed since the end of the Cold War, and it was much more likely to be hit by terrorists... and he disagreed with me. Now there is no doubt that the world/America changed at the end of the Cold War, not during 9/11. People's ATTITUDES to that change was sharp and radical during '01. You might ask, "Why does that discrepancy bother you-- why do you care if it changed during '90 or '01?" The incompetence of American intelligence officials and politicians and their unwillingness to recognize the fundamental change (post Cold War, pre-9/11) should not impair Americans' freedoms. We should not acquiesce to their requests to remove more freedoms in order to make their jobs easier on the basis of fear and "America changed." Their failure to recognize and act upon the intelligence that was already in their possession pre-9/11 is not our responsibility.
I recounted a 2008 incident on this blog during which a moronic cop used 9/11 as an excuse to search my person and my car. So I have experienced this "it changed everything" bullshit excuse firsthand. The people who submit to x-rays and intrusive searches in airports experience it all the time-- it's just much less in their face than what I experienced.

So in conclusion, once again, fuck islam. I hate that I must write about that disaster and rail against the bastards who continue to exploit it to this day.