The reminiscence of the twin towers fades into background leaving room for perversities like the above and the Wars on Terra that are brought on us in the name of the 9/11 victims and other terror prey. Let us not be duped into such suppressions.
Spanish author Javier Marías writes:
It’s also certainly true that for most of us, not a day goes by without remembering the almost 200 victims of March 11, with pain and a keen awareness that chance, fate and bad luck continue to be as important today as they were in humanity’s less foreseeing epochs.
Here in Spain, we don’t feel as if we are at war because we aren’t. And neither are the inhabitants of the United States, however vociferously many Americans may insist that they are.
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There is no war against terrorism. There can be no such thing against an enemy that remains dormant most of the time and is almost never visible. It’s simply another of life’s inevitable troubles, and all we can do as we continue to combat it is repeat Cervantes’s famous phrase “Paciencia y barajar”: “Have patience, and keep shuffling the cards.”