September 12th: The Day That Fucked Up the 21st Century

Everyone takes the time on September 11th to remember the day that your modern American first learned terror. But really, how did that change Western Society? A couple thousand innocent people died, a horrible thing yes, but which was worse, the actual attack on America or ability given to America to further it's stranglehold on the rest of the world?

Imperialism has a funny way of staying around for all these years. An idea that is constantly being rejected due to moral obligations has stayed alive and healthy. Healthy and fat. Is there much difference between what rich European countries expanding their empire using colonialism during the eighteenth century did and what America has been doing for the past 50 years?

The Cold War was a sketchy time for the West. An enemy with weird and wacky ways and an evil belief system was gaining more and more power. Struggle after struggle showed the American way the victor against the evil Russian ways. And the best part: there was no violent conflict involved.



Never mind.

The Cold War was fought out using puppets on both sides. A country would go through a socialist revolution supported by the USSR and resistance groups were then funded by the USA creating pro-America dictatorships. Like a giant popularity contest. After all, America did learn a valuable lesson from Vietnam: it's easier to give someone else the guns and do the fighting for you, rather than having to deal with those pesky UN regulations and hippies.



We will give peace a chance when we are damn well ready, Mr.Lennon

This way, America could still meddle with world affairs whilst making valuable, lifelong allies with those they support.



But time passes, crops fail, Ukrainian power plants blow up, relative freedom of speech is given to Soviet peoples and the Slavic empire is down for the count. But it's okay, they still have vodka. Was this the end for our empire juggling pal, Imperialism?



He used to be far more jolly back in the day

No, on an unsuspecting, sunny day in Mid September, 2001 someone totally fucked up on the whole "entering the 21st century without military imperialism (because it was more then healthy economically)". A couple thousand Americans gone, and the American government gained a longer leash. Not only could it invade any country it wanted under the "terrorist threat" (please see Saudia Arabia's involvement in 9/11 and Iraq's, well, lack of) but terrorists aren't protected as combatants, which isn't unjust, but it just makes it easier for America.