On September 11, 2001, I was working in the USA with an H2B visa, in Sun Valley Resort in Idaho. I worked late shift in the hotel laundry, so I usually slept a bit late in the morning. I do not know the exact time when I walked into the communal area, still bleary-eyed and foggy-minded, and saw it suddenly packed with people glued to the TV set in the corner. I glanced at the TV, and I saw the smoke billowing from the WTC towers.

“What is that, some new American action flick?”

“No, the news, someone flew planes into the WTC,” was a reply that did not wake me up immediately. When it finally dawned on me what I just heard, I joined the group.

One of the things that I remember seeing that day (or shortly after) was an interview that was, AFAIK, aired only once. I never found any transcript, I do not remember who was interviewing whom or which channel aired it, and I was never able to find it on the internet either (YouTube did not exist back then). But I do remember that the interviewee said something along the lines, “This attack, whilst unconscionably horrible, is the direct result of America meddling into other people’s affairs. I mean, given how we behave in the Middle East and how we treat the people there, it is not entirely surprising that it happened. America is responsible for the political climate that leads many people around the globe to hate us.”

The self-proclaimed president of peace claims to have stopped 8 wars, while in reality, he bombed 7 countries in just his first year and keeps illegally killing civilians at sea. And whilst his latest warmongering escapade might not lead to an outright WW3 (although that is too close to being the real outcome than before), it has, in my opinion, greatly increased the possibility of another 9/11-like event happening in the foreseeable future. Maybe not directly on US soil, it might happen somewhere in Europe or the Middle East, but a lot of innocent people will die. Killing the spiritual leader of a religion of over 190 million people, a religion that has a notoriety for producing terrorists, will not lead to anything good.

I only hope that when that happens, people will not forget who is to blame for those deaths – the USA and their war-mongering, sociopathic, criminal (adjudicated rapist, convicted fraudster/scammer,  34 felonies under his belt), and frankly, downright evil president. His personal responsibility and blame in this are much clearer than the collective responsibility of the USA as a whole was before 9/11.