The evidence is abundantly clear that Al Qaeda destroyed the bridge in Minneapolis. I don't even have to get out of my living room chair or do any kind of internet search to make the connection.
The US has spent over half a trillion dollars getting itself bogged down into exacerbating quagmires in the Middle East, using the 9/11 attacks as the main rationalizing basis for doing so.
What if just some of that $ had been spent to maintain infrastructure in places such as Minneapolis?
One could say that OBL's goal of destroying the US seems to be well on its way to being met. Could OBL have known that neocons wanted to invade Iraq before Bush got elected? That certainly was public knowledge available to anyone with reasonable access to the MSM. Could OBL have realized that he could light a match to the powder keg and precipitate an escalating cycle of violence that would embroil the US for decades? The more the US attacks people in the ME, the better off OBL and his ilk are. OBL surely realizes this and likely has realized it for some time.
But couldn't OBL's plans become thwarted by the election of a Democrat to the WH? From all available evidence, the answer is likely no. Obama has vowed to attack a sovereign (Muslim) nation, all in the name of 9/11, an act that could at the very least provide AlQaeda with legions more eager recruits. At worst, it could push a precariously perched Pakistan into a civil war that results in the Taliban taking over and controlling nuclear weapons. The costs to the US of dealing with that sort of clusterfuck could lead to far more US infrastructure neglect, leading to yet more insane tragedies such as the one in Minneapolis. None of the other electable Democrats are any different from Obama on this score.
It's so weird to be writing this, realizing it will be read by people who, for whatever reason(s), can't bring themselves out of the mindset that we need to act in whatever way necessary to destroy AlQaeda, regardless of the consequences of our particular actions. It's weird that these well-meaning people will be confused later on as to why "they" hate us and why the problem has only gotten worse instead of better. It's weird that these people make up the majority of Kossacks (let alone the vast majority of the US population).
It's like watching a slow-motion train-wreck, and no matter what I say, no matter what I point out, the train-wreck unfolds in front of me and the well-meaning participants in it seem powerless to bring themselves to stop it.