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Barack Obama writes for the Sunday Mirror: The 9/11 terrorists wanted to drive wedge between US and the world .. they failed

By President Barack Obama, Sunday Mirror 11/09/2011
Source - Mirror, UK

U.S. President Barack Obama (Pic: Reuters)

On this 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of ­September 11, 2001, we remember that 9/11 was not only an attack on the United States, it was an attack on the world and on the humanity and hopes that we share.

We remember that among the nearly 3,000 innocent people lost that day were hundreds of citizens from more than 90 nations, including 67 from the United Kingdom.

They were men and women, young and old, of many races and faiths. On this solemn anniversary we join with their families and nations in honouring their memory.

We remember with gratitude how 10 years ago the world came together as one. Around the UK, entire cities came to a standstill for moments of silence. People offered their prayers in churches, mosques, ­synagogues and other places of worship.

And we in the United States will never forget how the people of Britain stood with us in ­solidarity in candlelight vigils and among the seas of flowers placed at our embassy in London.

We are touched that the UK will honour the victims again today – including by breaking with protocol and flying the Union Flag at half-mast at its ­embassy and consulates in the United States.

In the weeks after 9/11, we acted as an ­international community. As part of a broad coalition, the US and the UK drove Al Qaeda from its training camps in Afghanistan, toppled the Taliban and gave the Afghan people a chance to live free from terror. However, the years that followed were difficult and the spirit of global partnership frayed.

As President, I’ve worked to renew the global cooperation we need to meet the full breadth of global challenges that we face. Through a new era of engagement, we’ve forged partnerships with nations and peoples based on mutual ­interest and mutual respect.

As an international community, we have shown terrorists are no match for the strength and ­resilience of our citizens. I’ve made it clear that the US is not and never will be at war with Islam. Rather, with allies and partners like the UK, we are united against Al Qaeda, which has attacked dozens of countries and killed tens of thousands of innocent men, women and ­children – the vast majority of them Muslims.

This week, we remember all the victims of Al Qaeda – including those killed in London on July 7, 2005 – and the courage and resilience with which their families and fellow citizens have persevered, from the Middle East to Europe, from Africa to Asia.

Working together, we have eliminated Osama Bin Laden and much of his leadership and put Al Qaeda on the path to defeat.

Meanwhile, people across the Middle East and North Africa are ­showing that the surest path to justice and dignity is the moral force of ­non-violence, not mindless terrorism. It is clear that violent extremists are being left behind and that the future belongs to those who want to build, not destroy.

All nations and people seeking a future of peace and prosperity have a partner in the United States. For even as we confront economic challenges at home, the US will continue to play a unique ­leadership role in the world.

As we remove the rest of our troops from Iraq and transfer ­responsibility in Afghanistan, we will support Iraqis and Afghans in their efforts to deliver­ ­security and opportunity for their people. In the Arab world and beyond, we will stand up for the dignity and universal rights of all human beings.

Around the world, we will continue the hard work of pursuing peace, promoting the ­development that lifts people from poverty, and advancing the food security, health and good governance that unleashes the potential of citizens and societies.

At the same time, we have recommitted ourselves to living our values at home. As a nation of ­immigrants, the US welcomes people from every country and culture.

These newest Americans, like all the innocent victims we lost 10 years ago, remind us that despite any differences of race or ethnicity, background or belief, we are all bound together by a common hope that we can make the world a ­better place for this and future generations. That must be the legacy of those we have lost.

Those who attacked us on 9/11 wanted to drive a wedge between the US and the world. They failed.

On this 10th anniversary, we are united with our friends in the UK and elsewhere remembering all those we have lost in this struggle.

In their memory, we reaffirm the spirit of ­partnership and mutual respect that we need to realise a world where all people live in dignity, freedom and peace.

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Originally posted by Wally:
Every time I see Obama picture I wish that I had voted for Mcain. Obama did absolutely nothing for black people except being black.


It would have been worse if McCain had won.
FM
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Originally posted by Wally:
Every time I see Obama picture I wish that I had voted for Mcain. Obama did absolutely nothing for black people except being black.

Obama is the president of the USA, not Black America. What do you want Obama to do, replicate LFSB's approach to rule? The USA is not a Banana republic Wally.
FM
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Originally posted by Wally:

Every time I see Obama picture I wish that I had voted for Mcain.

Obama did absolutely nothing for black people except being black.


People accept and recognize Barack Obama as the President of the United States.

It is your right to acknowledge any politician.
FM
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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:
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Originally posted by Wally:

Every time I see Obama picture I wish that I had voted for Mcain.

Obama did absolutely nothing for black people except being black.


People accept and recognize Barack Obama as the President of the United States.

It is your right to acknowledge any politician.

Bush was a better president for blacks than Obama.
FM
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Originally posted by Lucas:
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The 9/11 terrorists wanted to drive wedge between US and the world - Barack Obama

...and they succeeded. The US is now in deep shit.
The world is in a pickle and that is not unusual. Did not the lord say that by the sweat of they brow thou shall eat bread? Is not the first rule of economics the law of scarcity ie that scarcity is fundamental? Well the US has the wherewithal to pull itself out and so does western Europe...but then there are the fettered masses tied to religious states or totalitarianism. They have been and will be in deep shit for a long time to come. The US and not any one else is their only lifeline in their struggles.
FM
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Originally posted by D2:
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Originally posted by Lucas:
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The 9/11 terrorists wanted to drive wedge between US and the world - Barack Obama

...and they succeeded. The US is now in deep shit.
The world is in a pickle and that is not unusual. Did not the lord say that by the sweat of they brow thou shall eat bread? Is not the first rule of economics the law of scarcity ie that scarcity is fundamental? Well the US has the wherewithal to pull itself out and so does western Europe...but then there are the fettered masses tied to religious states or totalitarianism. They have been and will be in deep shit for a long time to come. The US and not any one else is their only lifeline in their struggles.

Do you mean that the US is the only nation your lord put on earth help the rest of the world stay alive? Again, this sounds tome like White Man is our God. May be that's why they decide which countries remain and which ones should be destroyed, right?
FM
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Originally posted by Lucas:
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Originally posted by D2:
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Originally posted by Lucas:
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The 9/11 terrorists wanted to drive wedge between US and the world - Barack Obama

...and they succeeded. The US is now in deep shit.
The world is in a pickle and that is not unusual. Did not the lord say that by the sweat of they brow thou shall eat bread? Is not the first rule of economics the law of scarcity ie that scarcity is fundamental? Well the US has the wherewithal to pull itself out and so does western Europe...but then there are the fettered masses tied to religious states or totalitarianism. They have been and will be in deep shit for a long time to come. The US and not any one else is their only lifeline in their struggles.

Do you mean that the US is the only nation your lord put on earth help the rest of the world stay alive? Again, this sounds tome like White Man is our God. May be that's why they decide which countries remain and which ones should be destroyed, right?
You are apparently ill equipped for rational thinking. I do not speak of god since I know there is none. My quote was in a manner of speaking about a common sense realization of christiandom. The US is hardly a whitemans world. Those of us seeking refuge from the "bound" nations all flock here so we constitute more than a third of its intellectual pool. But again, those blinders you have on keeps you from a clear perspective.
FM
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Originally posted by D2:
Is not the first rule of economics the law of scarcity ie that scarcity is fundamental?
No, it's not. The first law of economics is that unlike other species, humans are creative, and capable of discovering new resources when others become relatively scarce.
FM
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Originally posted by Henry:
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Originally posted by D2:
Is not the first rule of economics the law of scarcity ie that scarcity is fundamental?
No, it's not. The first law of economics is that unlike other species, humans are creative, and capable of discovering new resources when others become relatively scarce.
Hay dum dum, if you read you would know economics is about alternative ways of allocating scarce resources. All species are creative in the exercise of their abilities to survive. Many species do infact "invent" alternative modes of circumventing obstacles. None addresses scarcity as a problem.
FM
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Originally posted by D2:
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Originally posted by Henry:
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Originally posted by D2:
Is not the first rule of economics the law of scarcity ie that scarcity is fundamental?
No, it's not. The first law of economics is that unlike other species, humans are creative, and capable of discovering new resources when others become relatively scarce.
Hay dum dum, if you read you would know economics is about alternative ways of allocating scarce resources. All species are creative in the exercise of their abilities to survive. Many species do infact "invent" alternative modes of circumventing obstacles. None addresses scarcity as a problem.


D2, if there were a scintilla of truth in what you say, mankind would have used up all the firewood and gone extinct centuries ago. Instead, we developed a progression of increasingly more advanced energy technologies, using resources that our ancestors thought were of no utility.

Since you slavishly adhere to the most retrogressive propaganda you can find on the market, you have clearly embraced the bilge about man being equal to the rodents and such. But if you take a moment to consider the matter, the rodents live exactly as their ancestors did thousands of years ago, whereas humans have noticeably changed their practice. Try as you may to fight it, you are human. Get used to it.
FM
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Originally posted by Henry:
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Originally posted by D2:
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Originally posted by Henry:
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Originally posted by D2:
Is not the first rule of economics the law of scarcity ie that scarcity is fundamental?
No, it's not. The first law of economics is that unlike other species, humans are creative, and capable of discovering new resources when others become relatively scarce.
Hay dum dum, if you read you would know economics is about alternative ways of allocating scarce resources. All species are creative in the exercise of their abilities to survive. Many species do infact "invent" alternative modes of circumventing obstacles. None addresses scarcity as a problem.


D2, if there were a scintilla of truth in what you say, mankind would have used up all the firewood and gone extinct centuries ago. Instead, we developed a progression of increasingly more advanced energy technologies, using resources that our ancestors thought were of no utility.

Since you slavishly adhere to the most retrogressive propaganda you can find on the market, you have clearly embraced the bilge about man being equal to the rodents and such. But if you take a moment to consider the matter, the rodents live exactly as their ancestors did thousands of years ago, whereas humans have noticeably changed their practice. Try as you may to fight it, you are human. Get used to it.
First, before I digress to your nonsense, let me speak to the first ignorant claim; Economics cannot exist except as a subject relating to managing scarcity. Since we do not have a universal replicator as they do in star trek an since we do not have a holodeck as well we have economics. The fundamental law in economics is the law of scarcity...ie scarcity is universally pervasive and economics is the subject that helps us to manage that scarcity so we benefit from optimal use of the scarce resources.

Now the diversionary nonsense. Wood is not the main source of fuel. We use peat coal etc naturally occurring combustibles for centuries. We also never attained the population density where technology did not intervene to prevent that ie the discovery distillation and use of fossil fuel. But that does not mean creativity is the fundamental law of economics. We are by our unique use of our brains able to be rational when we take the time and overcome many things.

That brings us back to the first ignorant thing you say here on this board to me; the second law of thermodynamics is fiction. I can see why you think so because maybe in your world streams flow up hill and food can sit on your windowsill forever without undergoing decay. That entropy is a natural state of the world ensures that scarcity is a natural state of economics. But in your world, energy can stay pooled in one place forever.

The last paragraph is the idle meanderings of the grotesquely stupid.
FM
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Originally posted by Henry:
Well, D2, I can see that the two of us are fated to take opposite sides of the debate, I with the humans, and you with the rodents.
Dude, one of the things I detest more than rodents are stupid people. When I think of you and rodents I wonder how cute those furry beasts are.
FM
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Originally posted by Henry:

Since you slavishly adhere to the most retrogressive propaganda you can find on the market,


This is laughable coming from soneone who's a cult follower of the conspiracy theorist/lunatic Lyndon LaRouche. Big Grin
FM
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Originally posted by baseman:
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Originally posted by Wally:
Every time I see Obama picture I wish that I had voted for Mcain. Obama did absolutely nothing for black people except being black.

Obama is the president of the USA, not Black America. What do you want Obama to do, replicate LFSB's approach to rule? The USA is not a Banana republic Wally.


Some people just chat for chat sakes !
FM

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