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Date: August 10, 2007 11:34:29 AM PDT
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Subject: Columnist Claims We NEED Another 9/11, "for Our Own Good"
To save America, we need another 9/11
Stu Bykofsky
Philadelphia Daily News, August 9, 2007
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/
20070809_Stu_Bykofsky___To_save_America__we_need_another_9_11.html
One month from The Anniversary, I'm thinking another 9/11 would
help America.
What kind of a sick bastard would write such a thing?
A bastard so sick of how splintered we are politically - thanks
mainly to our ineptitude in Iraq - that we have forgotten who the
enemy is.
It is not Bush and it is not Hillary and it is not Daily Kos or
Bill O'Reilly or Giuliani or Barack. It is global terrorists who
use Islam to justify their hideous sins, including blowing up women
and children.
Iraq has fractured the U.S. into jigsaw pieces of competing
interests that encourage our enemies. We are deeply divided and
division is weakness.
Most Americans today believe Iraq was a mistake. Why?
Not because Americans are "anti-war."
Americans have turned their backs because the war has dragged on
too long and we don't have the patience for a long slog. We've been
in Iraq for four years, but to some it seems like a century. In
contrast, Britain just pulled its soldiers out of Northern Ireland
where they had been, often being shot at, almost 40 years.
That's not the American way.
In Iraq, we don't believe our military is being beaten on the
battleground. It's more that there is no formal "battleground."
There is the drip of daily casualties and victory is not around the
corner. Americans are impatient. We like fast food and fast war.
Americans loved the 1991 Gulf War. It raged for just 100 hours when
George H.W. Bush ended it with a declaration of victory. He sent a
half-million troops into harm's way and we suffered fewer than 300
deaths.
America likes wars shorter than the World Series.
Bush I did everything right, Bush II did everything wrong - but he
did it with the backing of Congress.
Because the war has been a botch so far, Democrats and Republicans
are attacking one another, when they aren't attacking themselves.
The dialog of discord echoes across America.
Turn back to 9/11.
Remember the community of outrage and national resolve? America had
not been so united since the first Day of Infamy - 12/7/41.
We knew who the enemy was then.
We knew who the enemy was shortly after 9/11.
Because we have mislaid 9/11, we have endless sideshow squabbles
about whether the surge is working, if we are "safer" now, whether
the FBI should listen in on foreign phone calls, whether cops
should detain odd-acting "flying imams," whether those plotting
alleged attacks on Fort Dix or Kennedy airport are serious threats
or amateur bumblers. We bicker over the trees while the forest is
ablaze.
America's fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.
What would sew us back together?
Another 9/11 attack.
The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago's Wrigley Field.
The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich
environment for al Qaeda.
Is there any doubt they are planning to hit us again?
If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the
homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore
America's righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail.
The unity brought by such an attack sadly won't last forever.
The first 9/11 proved that. *
E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 215-854-5977. For recent
columns:
http://go.philly.com/byko.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=pEdMu4JVsc8C&dq=trauma+victim
+recreate&ie=ISO-8859-1
The "9/11 SYNDROME," as a Form of "STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
from "The Betrayal Bond" by Patrick J. Carnes, 1997, ISBN 1558745262:
"[Terrifying events] can create trauma bonds -- bonds of trust
making you dependent on someone who is dangerous and abusive.
Domestic violence, incest and child abuse, family systems, hostage
situations, slave labor, and clerical sexual abuse are all areas in
which trauma bonding is common. Each of these relationships shares
one thing: it is a situation where your need for security is
overwhelmed by terror, yet the person 'protecting' you is causing
or exploiting your fear."
"Johns Hopkins researcher John Money commented on child victims who
continued to put themselves in harm's way or who appeared to
precipitate being abused. He observed that such behavior may
"signify that the abused has become addicted to abuse -- the
response to abuse is to stimulate more of it..
"Similarly, well-known Harvard researcher Bessel van der Kolk
carefully reviewed the role of the endogenous opioid system in
addiction to the trauma and trauma bonding. He observed:
"Trauma victims continue to recreate the truma to some form, for
themselves, or for others. War veterans may enlist as mercenaries,
incest victims may become prostitutes, victims of child physical
abuse may provoke subsequent abuse in foster families, victims of
child abuse may grow up to become self- mutilators. Still others
recreate the trauma by identifying with the aggressor, and
perpetuating the same acts on others that were once exercised upon
them.
"What these people have in common is a vague sense of apprehension,
emptiness, and anxiety whenever NOT involved in activities
reminiscent of the trauma.'
"A decade later we better understand the range of options available
to people who have [bonds based on trauma which require continued
re-creation of the original trauma as "positive reinforcement"] ...
"The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma:
Re-enactment, Revictimization, and Masochism"
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Volume 12, Number 2, Pages
389-411, June 1989.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD*
http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/
Adults as well as children may develop strong emotional ties with
people who intermittently harass, beat, and threaten them. Hostages
have put up bail for their captors, expressed a wish to marry them,
or had sexual relations with them; abused children often cling to
their parents and resist being removed from the home; inmates of
Nazi prison camps sometimes imitated their captors by sewing
together clothing to copy SS uniforms.
Walker and Dutton and Painter have noted that the bond between
batterer and victim in abusive marriages resembles the bond between
captor and hostage or cult leader and follower.
Social workers, police, and legal personnel are constantly
frustrated by the strength of this bond. The woman's longing for
the batterer soon prevails over memories of the terror, and she
starts to make excuses for his behavior. This pattern is so common
that women engaged in these sorts of relationships become the
recipients of intense anger for social service personnel. They are
then called masochistic, and like other psychiatric terms, this can
be employed pejoratively rather than conveying an understanding of
the underlying causes and treatment of the problem. Walker first
applied ethnology to the study of traumatic bonding in such
couples. A central component is captivity, the lack of
permeability, and the absence of outside support or influence. The
victim organizes her life completely around pleasing her captor and
his demands. As Dutton and Painter point out, "her compliance
legitimates his demands, builds up a store of repressed anger and
frustration on her part (which may surface in her goading him or
fighting back during an actual argument, leading to escalating
violence), and systematically eliminates opportunities for her to
build up a supportive network which could eventually assist her in
leaving the relationship."
In child abuse or spouse battering, this mechanism is accentuated
by the extreme contrast of terror followed by submission and
reconciliation. When such negative reinforcement occurs
intermittently, the reinforced response consolidates the attachment
between victim and victimizer. During the abuse, victims tend to
dissociate emotionally with a sense of disbelief that the incident
is really happening. This is followed by the typical post-traumatic
response of numbing and constriction, resulting in inactivity,
depression, self-blame, and feelings of helplessness.
Walker describes the process as follows: "tension gradually
builds" (during phase one), an explosive battering incident occurs
(during phase two), and a "calm, loving respite follows phase three).
The violence allows intense emotional engagement and dramatic
scenes of forgiveness, reconciliation, and physical contact that
restores the fantasy of fusion and symbiosis.
Hence, there are two powerful sources of reinforcement: the
"arousal-jag" or excitement before the violence and the peace of
surrender afterwards. Both of these responses, placed at
appropriate intervals, reinforce the traumatic bond between victim
and abuser. To varying degrees, the memory of the battering
incidents is state-dependent or dissociated, and thus only comes
back in full force during renewed situations of terror.
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