Again on Sept/11

 I watched the whole series on Sept/11 by Netflix. Some random impressions

1. were videos back in 2001 so low quality?! I remember 'decent' quality videos of the collapse of the Twin Towers.

2. The attack on the Pentagon is still the biggest mystery nobody really explained.

3. So many mistakes in the Afghanistan war(s) by all US administrations and allies (yes, Obama made huge mistakes too). It was astonishing to hear former FBI directors and high-level officials.

4. G.W. Bush got something personal in those tragedies. It was his great opportunity to show his father how good he was, but then Sept/11... then the UNJUSTIFIABLE war in Iraq until the complete, desperate disaster he left on his path. This would deserve an ancient Greek tragedy…

5. When you wage war, you must be clear about what victory will mean. 

6. Afghani landscapes are amazing, so beautiful. It’s sad to see such a devastated country.

7. Too many (incl. Netflix) forget that the origin of the Afghani crisis is the devastating colonization by the British. Like in Israel. And many other post-British mandates in the region. It’d be enough to read Wikipedia…

8. The attack to the Twin Towers was and is still a tragedy to be elaborated by many.

9. bin Laden was a genious and a terrorist. But mainly a terrorist.

10. How can you come back after you ‘go’ Guantanamo? Are you ‘better than them’ if you’re torturing your prisoners? That decision undermines the trust we can have in the self-declared biggest democracy in the world. 

Ok. Just some ideas. I’d love to have the opportunity to discuss it over a beer. 

In person. Somewhere.