A Day Of Remembrance
Today will be full of people writing about the anniversary of the murderous attack on this country five years ago. That is fitting, of course. It is a day that should not be forgotten. It also is a day I will have no patience whatsoever with denialists and conspiracy theorists. Some of us remember what that terrible day really meant. Michael Ledeen does.
There are many who are saying that we have lost that anger, that we have reverted to a 9/10 state of mind. I have my doubts.
Certainly nobody in my house has reverted, and my sense of the American people is that they have not either. But many of our opposition leaders, journalists, broadcasters, and editors, and, apparently, the overwhelming majority of the professoriate, clearly have. Otherwise it would not be possible for them to actively undermine the war. It is wrong to say they have forgotten the significance of 9/11, because they never grasped it. For them, patriotism has always been unworthy of sophisticates like themselves, and fighting enemies on foreign battlefields is something that rubes and rednecks do. They understand neither the world nor their fellow countrymen. They think we can achieve peace by being nice–did you hear Senator Biden prattling on and on about the need to talk to our Iranian enemies?—and they don’t know that our commissioned officers are college graduates, many of them from the best universities. I doubt more than a small fraction of leading journalists know that you need a college degree to get a Marine commission. Their ignorance about, and contempt for our military, fester beneath the surface of their reportage.
Many of the above groups Ledeen mentions are stupidly, myopically partisan, others openly hope for America to lose stature in the world. None of them seem to care what damage they do to America or to the world itself in the long run.
By cfaller96, Monday, 11 September , 2006 @ 8:01 am
Who openly hopes for America to lose stature in the world? Care to name names? Straw men are nice to knock down, but I wonder how long that tactic can work.
The American people do not want to remain in Iraq, and I doubt very much that they want to get into yet another war, this time with Iran. At some point, you need to stop insulting and questioning the patriotism of your fellow Americans, and accept their wisdom.
By Gaius, Monday, 11 September , 2006 @ 8:12 am
Ah the old “questioning the patriotism” strawman. Always fun to deal with the same old talking points.
By Black Jack, Monday, 11 September , 2006 @ 11:54 am
“Who openly hopes for America to lose stature in the world? Care to name names?”
Bill Clinton, Sandy Burger, Janet Reno, Jamie Gorelick, Al Gore, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Nancy Pilosi, Harry Reid, John Murtha, Ted Kennedy, Bill Keller, Pinch Sulzburger, James Risen, Eric Lichblau, Dan Rather, Marvin Kalb, The Dixie Chicks, Daily Kos, The Democrat Party in general, most of MSM, and all the rest of the hate America first crowd.
As to the patriotism issue, there’s no question about it, the Left supports the enemy, defends the enemy, informs the enemy, and obstructs our efforts to fight the enemy. Case closed.
By cfaller96, Tuesday, 12 September , 2006 @ 11:40 am
That was a mediocre effort, given that I was actually asking for quotes of those people saying, you know, that they “hope for America to lose stature in the world.” See, that’s what openly hoping for something means- you actually say you’re hoping for it. But nobody on that list has ever said anything like that, and so this ends up being another lie from the right wing.
Wishing it were doesn’t make it so.
By cfaller96, Tuesday, 12 September , 2006 @ 2:43 pm
Gaius, still no answer to my question- who openly hopes for America to lose stature in the world? You wrote it, so you must have had somebody in mind. Who?
By Gaius, Tuesday, 12 September , 2006 @ 2:48 pm
Search it yourself and stop wasting my time. It is out there - tons of it. Just google - I’m sure you can figure it out.