The Zombies of 9/11

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1197055903/for-a-new-generation-of-marines-9-11-is-history?ft=nprml&f=1122

I caught this report on 11 September which was in connection with the anniversary. It's rather stunning to consider that even after all these years there are people still buying into the discredited narratives. There's no reflection. They are truly zombies – unthinking semi-sentient beings enslaved to the state and its manipulative narratives and rhetoric.

It is also astonishing to discover – and I (and my family members) have encountered this in person, that there are many people out there that do not understand the events of that day, not even a simple version of the official narrative. Their memories are blurred and they never really understood it to begin with.

It's no wonder that people cannot understand more distant events like Vietnam or even World War II and the many artificial narratives and outright lies that dominate the official record. This was brought home just recently with the scandalous event in the Canadian Parliament in which a former Waffen-SS war criminal received a standing ovation. Anyone who understands the war should have known that a Ukrainian nationalist fighting against the USSR would have been a Nazi affiliate. You can be sure that Zelenskiy knew it but that didn't stop him from rising and applauding the mass murderer.

Returning to the post-9/11 American setting and the article in question, it would seem the new recruits are divorced from these events have embraced thinking and attitudes reminiscent of the 1990's military ethos. The Cold War was over and a lot of people joined the military not out of patriotic fervour but instead looking for college benefits and the like – the massive sign-on bonuses were not in play then. Some of us will remember how shocked and upset a lot of Reservists and National Guard troops were when they were called up for the Desert Storm, the first Iraq War. They never really grasped what it was to be in the military – let alone its possible implications.

What makes me reel is to encounter people like the recruiter being interviewed, people that drank the Kool-Aid and on the basis of Bush Administration lies and as such participated in the Afghan and Iraqi Wars. Years and years later there's no reflection let alone regret. Remember this person is a recruiter – the scum of the Earth in my opinion, worse than shady car salesmen and every bit as bad as ambulance chasing lawyers. They don't just sell junk or shake people down for money – these liars sell death and profit from the destruction of lives.

The talk of vengeance is all the more glaring when apparently it hasn't fazed these people that the wars they participated in, the devastation they caused, and the resulting deaths of millions of people were not really revenge at all but a case of aggression and imperialism. The people that have died and the societies destroyed did not attack America. The motives were revealed to be smoke and mirrors and many of us knew at the time.

Somehow some of the new recruits think that by joining the Marines and being sent to North Africa, Syria, Iraq, or to the Asia-Pacific that this is somehow related to 9/11 – some kind of payback for the attacks. These people are not engaged with reality. They are idolaters. America is their religion and thus they exercise what can only be described as a kind of blind faith. Sadly their faith has given the military a messianic role and death is sacramental to them.  

They are lost people but this is nothing new. This is as old as Babel. It's not part of the story but I wonder how many of the people being interviewed profess to be Christians and attend church on Sunday? If they were part of Biblically faithful churches they would be excommunicated – handed over to the Satan they've given their lives to and made Faustian bargains with. But of course the American Church overwhelmingly shares in this idolatry and as apostates play a large role in its promotion, the same kind of myths given voice in this sad and pathetic article are able to enter the Church. In the context of such idolatrous and apostate churches (which dominate the land), the veterans and war dead are treated with far more reverence than baptism or the Lord's Supper. One is left to wonder what God it is they are praying to?