[RED DEMOCRATICA] The Day the World Shifted

 

September 11, 2011 The Day the World Shifted Dear Friend, I wanted to share with you an excerpt of a blog I just posted on our website in honor of the 10 year anniversary of September 11, 2001 (click here to read the whole blog): Ten years ago, while driving to work, I watched in horror as smoke and flames billowed from the Pentagon from across the Potomac River. Later, huddled in a basement office, our small staff overcame its fear that this was “the beginning of the end” and got to work. The message sent that day to our members began, “The world has shifted.”  Like the first few moments after an earthquake, we didn’t know how bad the damage was, but we knew the world would never be the same again. I wrote then: “Right now, I am as fearful of the knee jerk reaction that our nation could embark upon, as I am by the damage that those forces behind these attacks can inflict. I ask all of you in the days ahead to be the courageous voice of sanity and reason and help turn this tragedy into the beginning of a healing rather than the beginning of the end.” In 2001, the U.S. had an opportunity to treat the attacks as either the terrible crimes they were, or as acts of war.  Ten years later it is clear that reason did not prevail. A front page news article in the Washington Post declares that this “is the American era of endless war.”  It goes on to say that “peace” has become “a dirty word in Washington foreign-policy circles.” Ten years later, we know the policies of war have failed.  Yet we still allow the fear generated by the horrors of 9/11 and the terrorist acts that followed to silence our better selves. Citizens for Global Solutions is committed to forging a path of peace.  America’s ability to overcome the “fear of the other” has allowed us to become the great nation that we are. This year, join me in reasserting this fundamental American value. Click here to read this blog in its entirety. In Peace, Don Don Kraus CEO, Citizens for Global Solutions

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