5) agonized kings

( 2o12 )




9/11

was an attack

in the heart of the

American Civilization.

Over the course of

the subsequent

decade

  with the                                               goal of

bringing justice,                                      stability and democracy,

the world had built an army with tax money, worth one million houses worth one million

dollars. Many thousands had to die in    combat,   lives are missing now in the dreams,

more have suffered,           and still are,            from the chaos of

the                         two                       wars.

Lives

and money and

houses so eerily needed now.





One


terrorist


acted and the


most powerful country


fell into a vicious self-destructive


circle. Bravo? How could the attack turn the nation


in such an agony?       In the past, when a country had been


attacked, the subsequent increase in fear amongst the population resulted in a


call for a strong central authority.   This usually reduced the check-and-balance effect


of the Montesquieu' separation of the powers. It's an old reflex taken over


from the old kingdoms that had proven itself useful for modern


western democracies in their fights against the axes


of evil or the red army. Terrorists were


usually not strong enough


to create such


a strong


fear


.






But

towers as

symbols of power

have always been overrated.

There was no axes of evil, and there was

no civilization that was about to destroy the American one

Only the illusion of it, aroused by the opportunistic rhetoric of the

establishment. The terrorists' act was so frightening, it succeeded provoking

the Achilles heal of western democracies, that is the transfer of power to the executive

in fearful times. The message of the attack was able to awake the oh-so-destructive

kingdom's reflexes

any mother prays her family to be protected of. Torture was suddenly necessary.

The secret services had increased power. The media was (self-) censored.

Social reforms were halted.  The  financial markets resources

diverted               to               increase

fire

power and

not to innovation.






I'm sure                at least

fifty-one percent       of the Americans felt


already back then the same aversion and distrust towards


the once-and-for-all tactics and couldn't understand how they


could be training warlords all over the world in fighting freedom


fighters, yet anyway let escape the terrorist for so long. I think


most Americans wanted their government to react differently, from


the start, from the evening of the 11th September. It seems


it divided the nation in two camps that in their agony


couldn't understand each other anymore, starting


and feeding the vicious self-destructive


circle, that later led to the


Babylonian political


debate culture


we  see


today


.






Any president bears an unbearable burden

when trying to rebuild a country destroyed and divided by war

why i can recommend only to the Afghan people

to opt rather for a directorial executive

and share the burden amongst seven equal councilors.

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