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| richfed |
Posted - September 10 2011 : 12:53:12 PM
"Knocking down the towers is something the terrorists did to us, but leaving that hole in the ground for 10 years is something we did to ourselves."
~~~ Mark Steyn |
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| richfed |
Posted - September 17 2011 : 1:21:51 PM
Pulling together is great ... it's the changing of the reason for the attacks and aftermath that bugs the heck out of me. For example, "citizens of 110 countries died in the attacks," as if the attacks were aimed at all the world. Clearly, they were aimed at the USA, and it just so happened that citizens of other nations were victims. There is a big difference. |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - September 11 2011 : 2:38:51 PM
Always "nice" to have folks pulling together etc., - but it was "the attack on us" that's the reason. |
| richfed |
Posted - September 11 2011 : 10:01:38 AM
I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday while I was out for lunch ... The insightful, witty, and brilliant Mark Steyn was the guest host. He made some great points during the 45 minutes I was tuned in. One - and I summarize and add my own thoughts:
You can look at this 10th anniversary remembrance of the events of 9/11 as if it were a tragedy -- in the sense of some natural disaster. We could all, as much of the media and a segment of the populace do, get all warm and fuzzy and huggy. We could bring brotherhood and "we are all one rhetoric" into it. Play on that theme -- all religions and races were victims. Peace, baby.
Or, you can look at it as what it was. An attack on America. A declaration of war. First responders rushing into flaming skyscrapers as everyone else ran out - Todd Beamer - Let's roll - an ad-hoc militia formed in the sky to do battle. And then, the reactions of a man, who should have been a beloved President of the people instead of despised, who took control, responded, consoled, and held us all together. It is about a war and how the American people would respond to it. That is how the vast majority of us viewed it that day.
Please let's not have revisionist history take hold a mere 10 years later.
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