To Mourn a Loss

To mourn a loss is to face it. To understand its full implications and ramifications.
Ask yourself this.
What would they truly want? All the innocents who died  in 9-11?
Your solemnity and respectful commemoration, or your hard probing questions, your soul searching  introspective and analytical queries, or your wreaths and condolences?
I think they would want us to question.
Relentlessly and fearlessly.
To safeguard their only possible future, in the lives of their children.
A dying prayer for us to honour, that this won't be repeated, ever again.
And their tragedy deserves discussion. Hard analytical discussion on every forum,  and platform.
It begs a fair hearing. From everyone on every side.
Not a one sided incitement to violence but a constant occupation of every mind that dares call itself human.
To be human is to be moved by inhumanity.
And to react against it by unleashing not weapons but thoughts. To source out problems and then seek solutions.
How do you do it by lighting candles, but wearing blinkers? 

Ask yourself pertinent questions.

Where did Osama Bin Laden receive his terrorist training and his formidable arsenal of weapons?
Where did the Jihadi pilots live and train prior to their suicide missions?
Why despite discovery of the Munich cell and the thwarting of a prior truck bomb attempt on the twin towers, were no preemptive actions and security measures taken? Say in the form of think tanks that  foresaw and guarded against possible air attacks, by missiles, bombs or planes? Not an impossible theory in the wake of Pearl Harbour or Hiroshima-Nagasaki.

And ask also this. Why does US policy change frequently vis a vis those they support and those they  target?
From Ho Chih Minh, erstwhile Korean ally to enemy, from Vietnam, to Iraq, Libya and now Syria, when exactly does US foreign policy dictate war on a sovereignty?
What are the determinants for US policies to remain friendly towards a nation? Not an impressive Human rights record or Saudi Arabia would have been bombed by now.
Or China, though taking on this Asian giant would probably be their worst mistake, and so it won't happen.
Is it then oil interest and a perceived potential threat to the status of the Petrodollar, by powerful Middle eastern blocs, which make it in the best interest of USA to keep things in a state of flux and destabilization there?

Why were the Mujahedeen perceived as liberators, so long as they fought against the Russians in Afghanistan, but are now the  terrorists?
Who supplied weapons, to them, appropriated later by Taliban?
The profitable weapons industries of which countries create the killing fields of other countries?
Which country imposes nuclear bans and controls in moderate nations but is yet to sign the No-first-use nuclear policy?
Also,  why such dainty terms as "moderate rebels", by the US for murderous beasts like the Isis and Al Nusra?
Is crucifixion for apostasy, beheadings and rape 
Moderate acts of terror?
I could say all this sounds like a one sided indictment of the US, except it isn't.
It really is a cry for help, to empowered liberal affluent and educated people.
That there's a crying need for change.
And only your questions may bring some change.
It's an act of faith to ask questions, to hold a high civilization accountable and answerable for its actions, because it demonstrates a trust, that the same citizenry has the power to set in motion changes, in opinions and actions.
Or at least never to err in ignorance.
That  a free nation is actually free, to question its leaders, to lobby, to vote out of power, and to give a more humane direction to foreign and home policy, and not be penalized for it

And my hope and prayer is that all our questions will serve as a searchlight on those who cook up mass murder and genocide, with the covert aim of profit and misappropriation,  while holding banners of either liberation and democracy, or honor and vengeance.