Today's Apocalypse Sign: The Final 100 Days

The Mayan calendar on the right side bar has ticked down to the 100 final days. Oddly this final triple-digit day falls on the 11th anniversary of 9/11...to the day. Tuesday September 11th, 2001.

Eleven years ago today...100 days left before the Mayan calendar closes it chapter in time.

In between we have an election, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Texas State Fair, my sister's birthday...and things with meaning to you.

I heard this morning that the Taliban have put a bounty on the head of Prince Harry...kill or kidnap. In a word..."all their resources into the effort". I hope Harry keeps his head down while he is in Afghanistan. And I have a friend there as well...training the Afghani Police. Not the safest of tasks lately.

I fear something happening somewhere today, terrorist related. It just seems so impossible for everyone to be aware of everything and stop all possible outlets of extremist violence. A friend of mine once said, "sometimes it's better to be lucky than good". In the recent memory we have been very lucky. A couple books I have read lately have borne that out. Lucky with a heavy dose of enemy incompetence. They don't make rabbits-foot talismans that big.

I want to go to Ground Zero and see all there is to see there. I watched the show on History or A&E about the work that went into the design and installation of the monument to all who died that day 11 years ago. How cooling pipes had to be installed to keep the engraved metal from getting too hot to allow people to touch it. Ironically a preventive measure for both the solemness of the moment and the warding off of potential litigious visitors opportunities.

Each one of the names etched with high pressure water jets. One of the victims surviving family members were there to etch the first name on the memorial. It is a fascinating program to watch from the awarding of the contract to Michael Arad to the final construction and installation. This is more than a work of art it is an engineering marvel. Watch it if you can find it.

This day has again been set aside, as it should be, for remembrance and reflection. I, like many Americans, believed vengeance was necessary for the events of 9/11. This was not a Christian "turn the other cheek" time for our people. The wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq while tragic to a fault have at the very least showed that the USA comes with both barrels loaded. We are not good at managing war (clearly) as the strategy morphs from military at the beginning to something of ugly politics the longer it wages. The death toll unbearable...even one. Iraq will become a mess and who knows about Afghanistan.

I am not an Obama supporter in hardly any fashion. I do however applaud his resolve and dedication to targeted strikes on the terrorist community. I want them afraid to go outside, step away from women and children even for a second, take a drive or live a life. I want them to know the end is coming in the last buzz of a drone and the flash of a hellfire rocket. This is biblical vengeance...eye for an eye kind of stuff.  I read the book Kill or Capture: The War On Terror and The Soul Of The Obama Presidency by Daniel Klaidman found it a riveting read. I recommend it.

In the end I choose to celebrate that Osama Bin Laden is dead as are many of his cohorts. While this may not stop terrorists from attacking us again and may not be a morally agreeable stance for some people to accept, I fervently wish somewhere in the world tonight some rabid Jihadist contacts the spirit of Bin Laden by Ouija or other means and finds out there are no virgins only fire waiting for him on the other side.

God Bless America!