ICHEOKU says 9/11 is still hurting so much because Afghanistan was not nuked. People feel that the response following 9/11 attacks was not devastating enough to maximumly punish those who had the audacity to come into American homeland and wreck as much havoc as they did on 9/11. They should have been punished in such a bone chilling manner that it would have served as a permanent deterrent for any person or group or country that ever dreams of hurting or attacking America in the future. An overwhelming severe force should have been used, such as would have shocked the entire world and quickly brought Afghanistan to a quick painful end. Such would have dispensed the losing of 2,448 service members and 3,846 defense contractors, as well as 20,000 others wh were wounded in the wasted twenty years in that awful piece of earth.
The Japan example would have been replicated in Afghanistan and to the second degree, by completely wiping off the map the country known as Afghanistan. It would have fully placated Americans and brought back peace of the mind and sense of security in the country. But to engage the Taliban in a war that lasted 20 years which they eventually won, brings back all the bad memories of 9/11 rushing back and flooding our minds. It stirs a disturbing sense of trepidation in American people that America is no longer safe but vulnerable and that their country is no longer as powerful nor as feared as before. This feeling of vulnerability is what is making so many Americans raving mad and angry at each other because they are reacting to a bottled up sense of loss, anguish and anxiety.
The thinking now is that the terrorists did it before and America was not able to prevent it or teach them a bitter lesson on why it is not a good idea to mess with America. They are back in power in Kabul and might soon start to scornfully treat America and with great disdain, to the point that they might some day become even more emboldened to thumb their nose at America, daring America to do its worst. Living such a life on edge of the unknown and what possibly this people might unleash against America in the future is not without its debilitating effects. Americans are largely traumatized and many are suffering from PTSD as a result of 9/11; and of course most have not been diagnosed and some don't even know what is triggering them comes directly from the 9/11 attack.
On the roads, there are road rages everywhere; on the plane, Americans are losing it and throwing punches at one another; in neighborhoods, there are series of neighborhood wars going on and on our streets, Americans are shooting and killing one another with ease. There are shootings at job places, families are killing each other; police are killing unarmed people and some nut jobs are killing police as well. But we seem to gloss over the remote causes of this angriness in American people and why, despite all they are privileged to have, they are still not a happy people and are always lashing out at each other. Why is nobody in authority looking at the underlying factor of anger which is eating away at American people and forcing them to act out in manners, which are not only uncivilized but not expected of a country that supposedly has everything.
In Pearl Harbor attack, 2,403 Americans were killed with 1,143 others wounded by the kamikaze action of only 55 Japanese suicide bombers and Japan paid a hefty price for their thoughtless action with their two cities, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. On 9/11, mostly American people numbering 2,977 were killed with 6,000 others wounded by the actions of 19 Muslim terrorists who flew hijacked planes into three places, One World Trade Center, The Pentagon and a forced crash in Shanksville Pennsylvania. So, if less number of casualties in Pearl Harbor led to the annihilation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, why was such bombs not dropped to avenge the death of more Americans on 9/11. Even Riyadh should have been on the chopping block as well, since 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabia citizens.
Yes, Americans are sad and sadder today than pre 9/11. They are sad because they feel that 9/11 was not adequately avenged; and are asking what are then nuclear weapons meant for if those who attacked on us on 9/11 were not evaporated. It would have been the best response for the havoc which those terrorists wrecked in America and on Americans, both those who lost their lives on that fateful day and those who are still alive but whose general psyche were irreparably damaged and destroyed asa result. We no longer feel safe in our homeland and our Twin Towers are gone too, drastically remaking our skyline without our having a choice in it. But the people who contributed to these woes somewhat survived and are back in power in Afghanistan as well as still sitting in power in Saudi Arabia.
Although some might read this as heartless, but ICHEOKU demurs that it is those who brought the level of calamity to America that actually have no beating hearts in them. Some people might say why use nuclear bomb for mere plane attacks, but ICHEOKU says those who perished inside World Trade Center experienced weapons of mass destruction, which is exactly the experience Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia deserved, because they do not have World Trade Centers equivalent which we could have brought down with full occupancy. That would have made it a fair retaliation but not when American troops were forced to waste trillions of dollars, thousands of lives and twenty long years searching for targets in such a wasteland.
Anyway, the deed is done and the war is now over. All ICHEOKU is doing here is trying to second guess why we are not recovering from the 9/11 attack and will not recover from it, not as long as the 9/11 generation still lives. It is because the response was not adequate nor punitive enough to psychological make us feel good and fully recompensed. A case made worse with the Taliban being back on the saddle of power in Kabul and the occupants of the Kingdom of Saud are still acting as if they had nothing to do with it, when the whole world knows exactly that their fingerprints are everywhere on 9/11 attacks. It is sad the level of immunity which oil and oil money had purchased for Saudi Arabia that they simply gets away with everything. Even the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi who they butchered in their embassy in Istanbul Turkey has been forgotten.
What a bloody world we live in where bloody alliances are forged on the blood of the people. The river of pain of 9/11 continues to flow and many Americans are continuing to drown in it because treading of the water is fatigue inducing and difficult to maintain. Even coronavirus killer machine is not as pain-inducing as 9/11. There is something about 9/11 that has permanently enveloped Americans' joy like a demonic dark cloud that try as hard as one may, it never lifts nor goes away. The bad news is that by the time one begins to try and push it back in the distance memory, another anniversary of it rushes in and is deja vu the cycle of pain. 9/11 is a bad news that keeps on giving every September 11th of each year when the horrors of that day is relived. Will the torture ever end or at least reduced to minimum commemoration because it is turning us all into PTSD sufferers. 9/11 the worst day ever!
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