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Sean Davis: 9/11 and the End of America

September 17, 2023 by Wayne Creed 2 Comments

The following commentary is from Sean Davis. Published with permission.

In hindsight, 9/11 looks like it might have been the beginning of the end of the American empire. It spawned the worst and most destructive foreign policy in the country’s history. The government response to 9/11 birthed the constitutional abomination that is the modern warrantless surveillance state.

The Patriot Act enabled the government to weaponize its vast resources against its own people. Bush’s failed foreign policy led to directly to Obama’s presidency, and indirectly to Biden’s, both of which are responsible for diminishing the U.S. at home and abroad, militarily and economically.

After two failed forever wars that wouldn’t have happened without 9/11, our government is now desperately trying to foment a potentially nuclear forever war against Russia. Meanwhile, all the massive surveillance powers claimed by the U.S. after 9/11 are being ruthlessly deployed against American political enemies of the regime via the most insidious censorship-industrial complex the world has ever seen. And then there’s the crippling legacy of debt enabled by America’s response to 9/11.

Not content to spend trillions on poorly thought-out invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, our leaders spent as thoughtlessly at home, creating insane amounts of new entitlements, while doing nothing to put the country on a sound financial footing. And where are we today? The ruling political party is criminalizing its opposition and attempting to throw its top political opponent and his supporters in prison, all under the guise of “democracy.”

We generally remember 9/11 as the day that the towers came down. I wonder if historians will look back on it as the day that America started to fall.

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  1. Paul Plante says

    September 17, 2023 at 9:47 am

    Well written and thought provoking and on the money, I would say.

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  2. Don Green says

    September 17, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    Excellent article. We should never forget that Dubya’s eight years cemented into place the apparatus of the Administrative State that the Obama and Biden administrations have used so successfully to circumscribe our individual freedoms.

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