What kind of world are our children really inheriting? One full of promise, or one full, well, crap?
I literally live a five minute drive, without traffic, from JFK International Airport in New York City. (For those of you that don’t know JFK was the target of a terror plot that was luckily thwarted by the FBI and the NYPD last week.) While the NYPD claims that New Yorkers were never in danger, I’m left wondering, what if we were? At the very least had the bombs been detonated my family would have heard it. At the most, well, it could have been very bad. I’m not being dramatic either. As I understand it the scope of the plot would have had catastrophic effects on nearby neighborhoods and perhaps as far as Manhattan. To further complicate issues these terrorists were from the Caribbean, not the Middle East. Apparently lots of people hate the U.S. of A.
I’m not usually one to harp on such things (9/11 is a different topic entirely). I typically just thank the heavens that no one was hurt and move on. But this felt very close to home. And that’s because it was. As a dad and a husband I am tasked with protecting my family, which is difficult to do under normal ‘hood conditions. But how the heck can you do it when there are people running around with bombs? Raising a black boy in this country is enough of a challenge, I don’t need this one.
Big shout-out to our troops overseas. We’ll see y’all when you get home.
I’ve got a feeling this will turn out to be seriously exaggerated as a threat – their plan, as i understand it, to blow up jet fuel pipelines, had very little chance of doing more than start a small fire. It would have taken military-like quantities of explosives to create the ripple-effect they hoped for – as it was, they had no explosives of any kind anyway, but the media and certainly the homeland security people are happy to paint the worst-case scenario, no matter how unlikely or even impossible.
There’s no doubt are people plotting terror attacks, but we are far from the days of suicide bombers in our streets and malls on a daily basis.
The laws of cause and effect suggest to me that the more we go overseas and kill people there, the likelier it is they’ll want to come and kill people here. It’s a vicious circle that’s been set in motion over decades. Who is going to stop it?
…after all, you don’t live anywhere near JFK, so why should you worry, right, torn? Why should anyone worry, least of all AMD? We should just give Islamism a pass, assume the best, and pretend 9/11 never happened, right? It’s all Bush’s fault, anyway.