As we come up on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this is a fair question. Consider America's national debt, the endless deficits, and the treasure that continues to be poured into Afghanistan and Iraq. Wasn't the attack on the World Trade Center symbolically an attack on American capitalism? And hasn't American capitalism been shaken to its roots?
Of course, this attack has been aided from within. The greedy pigs who brought us to the brink of disaster, precipitating the Great Recession and the massive federal bailout, helped the cause of the terrorists immeasurably.
Lincoln said that, if America ever falls, it will be from within, not from an outside threat. Our own greed, selfishness, shortsightedness will be the death of us yet.
This is what this old man sees, as we look a month out to the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
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