Five years after 9/11 and our borders are still wide open. They may even be more open today than they were before nineteen terrorists entered our country, spent more than two years living here renting homes and apartments, getting credit cards and bank accounts, went to school to learn how to fly but not take off or land large aircraft, and then brought us the horrors of September 11, 2001 armed with box cutters no less.

What could be more obvious? In five years, Bush has done little or nothing to close our borders. Now we’ve got millions of lawbreaking aliens openly taking to the streets and protesting any attempt to finally restrict their crossing in order to settle in our cities and take advantage of our dwindling social services without bothering to get visas as the nineteen infamous terrorists did without much difficulty.

Illegal law breaking aliens are one thing, but we also have our own ambassadors and embassies that have, for years, been passing out visas to foreigners who then overstay their time limits and join the underground ranks of lawbreakers. During the so-called information age, the most technologically efficient nation in the world keeps better track of prison parolees and pedophiles than migrants that entered our country with temporary permits. 

On top of that, we have ports where only about six percent of the huge shipping containers are thoroughly inspected and could house anything from nuclear weapons to slave laborers temporarily ensconced in these apartment size boxes. And, because of the inequity of our tremendous balance of trade where we’ve got almost a trillion more in goods coming into the country than going out, it creates stockpiles of these dead-ending containers clogging the shipping system.

In the American tradition of playing the downside, new businesses can profitably buy these containers cheap and sell them for backyard storage or modify them into something more stable than the trailers too often used for life in hurricane zones. What else are we going to do with them, load them back on ships deadheading back to China for more WalMart supplies? Melt them down for scrap steel, use them to create barrier reefs off our coasts, or pile them up in Grand Bahama where China has just opened the world’s largest container operation offloading to coastal vessels capable of entering our smaller ports?

Instead of those rows of mini-warehouses renting in our cities and suburbs, imagine rows of shipping containers taking their place and eliminating more expensive construction. This is typical of new ventures in our “booming” economy.

Meanwhile, our “bring ‘em on” president and his gang have taken to the airwaves to remind us of the never ending “war on terror” and that we are “safer, but not yet safe” from attacks by fanatics out to kill as many Americans as possible.

The hypocrisy involved is obvious to everyone but the media news people and so-called watchdogs of public interest that, for some nefarious reason, seem hesitant to broach the subject. A president who tells us that “evildoers” are out to destroy our “way of life” and, at the same time, talks of “guest worker” programs, amnesty for border breakers, and steadfastly refuses to take the common sense action of guarding our borders, ports, and shorelines after intruders hit us once – is not making sense and seems to be working at cross if not treasonous purposes.

What’s more, this contradictory behavior feeds right into the conspiracy theories that propose certain government people not only knew the 9/11 attacks were eminent and took no action, but were actually implicated in the deed. Only those who knew no other attack was on the way could afford to leave our borders and ports wide open for five years while failing to put together adequate emergency response to natural disasters like Katrina.

Americans have yet to realize “why” the terrorists attacked us in the first place, what made them hate us so much. And these blinders seem due to a lack of empathy or the ability to imagine how they would feel if China or Russia built and staffed dozens of military bases in America to guard, guide, and “protect” us.

Before invading Iraq, we had more than 725 military bases in foreign countries, many in the Middle East. Now we’ve got dozens more going up in Iraq that will always be manned by American troops. Instead of wondering why we are spending a fortune to support this huge military empire, most people accept the Bush garbage about radical religious fanatics who hate freedom and our way of life and are willing to die for an endless supply of vestal virgins waiting for each of them in the happy hunting grounds.

After 9/11, we also had the sympathy and support of most of the world. Today, that friendship has turned into fear and hate. And it’s all due to the barrage of lies we unleashed on the world and the hopeless quagmire in Iraq – plus our new threats on Syria and Iran with the help of Israel that we’ve supplied with hi-tech and illegal weaponry including nukes and probably biologicals.

And we don’t dare pull out of Iraq because it might then fall into despair and end up as a tropical vacationland like Vietnam.