I dropped the twins off at junior high this morning and was happy to see the lawn outside lined with small American flags. Red, white and blue pennants topped the fencing and a large group of kids were still affixing flags and making U S A in the chain link fence with red/white/blue plastic cups.
Gives me a small glimmer of hope that the Leftist forces in this country may not fully succeed in burying this event or twisting it into something America deserved.
It’s bad enough that rewarding Islamism, instead of eradicating it, is Obama’s mission. Aided and abetted by Leftstream media.
via Glenn Reynolds, this from the Lileks archive 2003
Of course some people are impatient with those who still recall the shock of 9/11; the same people were crowding the message boards of internet sites on the afternoon of the attacks, eager to blame everyone but the hijackers. They hate this nation. In their hearts, they hate humanity. They would rather cheer the perfect devils than come to the aid of a compromised angel. They can talk for hours about how wrong it was to kill babies, busboys, businessmen, receptionists, janitors, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers – and then they lean towards you, eyes wide, and they say the fatal word:
But.
And then you realize that the eulogy is just a preface. All that concern for the dead is nothing more than the knuckle-cracking of an organist who’s going to play an E minor chord until we all agree we had it coming.
I’ve no doubt that if Seattle or Boston or Manhattan goes up in a bright white flash there will be those who blame it all on Bush. We squandered the world’s good will. We threw away the opportunity to atone, and lashed out. Really? You want to see lashing out? Imagine Kabul and Mecca and Baghdad and Tehran on 9/14 crowned with mushroom clouds: that’s lashing out. Imagine the President in the National Cathedral castigating Islam instead of sitting next to an Imam who’s giving a homily. Mosques burned, oil fields occupied, smart bombs slamming into Syrian palaces. We could have gone full Roman on anyone we wanted, but we didn’t. And we won’t.
Which is why this war will be long.
The jihadists demonstrate they haven’t given up, even as many ostensible Americans have.
I’ll be asking the boys at the dinner table tonight what they covered about 9/11 at school. This long war may soon be theirs and we should be damned to hell if we hamstring them with pretending it is not an ideological war and some of their most cunning enemies are right here at home.
Who knew that 9/11 would spell the beginning of our internal demise rather than a strengthening of resolve?
In the alt-universe, Al Gore wins in 2000. He reacts to 9/11 exactly as Bush does: invades Afghanistan, then Iraq. Does the Left lose its mind and tear the country to shreds? No, no it doesn’t, and neither does the Right reflexively opposed Gore simply because he’s wearing the wrong color jersey.
The immense, unbridgeable chasm between left and right doesn’t open; the opportunistic infection of Zinnian self-loathing does not enter the broken skin; the war efforts aren’t hamstrung by politicians and hangers-on who are determined to take down the president by any means necessary.
But Obama still might have happened, and with it the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood, Valerie Jarrett’s Iranian boosterism, and a new wave of anti-Jewish sentiment that will end exactly as well as it always does: with murders and holocausts.
Recently, Glenn Beck said that a rabbi told him that rabbis are not allowed to teach the book of Jeremiah to gentiles except for two chapters: 7 and 27.
Chapter 7
The fact that the temple of the Lord stands in Jerusalem will not save you, says God, because look what I did in Shiloh (v.12), where the Ark of the Covenant was housed: I laid them waste, and I will not spare you either, unless you repent.
This is America, some say; we’re different. And yet one-third of our putative brethren clamor to elect a SECOND king to replace the first, in hopes that he will crush THEIR enemies this time, just as we were crushed by the current king.
Chapter 27
Accept the yoke of bondage or die, says God. The Hebrews had become so corrupt, so wicked, that it would have been immoral to let them continue on their path, so God used Babylon’s power to tear them down. Don’t listen to those “wise men” who say it can’t happen here, for they prophesy a lie unto you.
Are we on the verge of this? When the Zombie Apocalypse comes (currency crash, EMP, etc), will we fall into the hands of our enemies: the South to Mexico, the West to China, and the East to Islam?
We’ll certainly deserve it, but that means fighting again for our freedom against occupiers, not against foreign powers across the sea. The Chinese army with its sheer numbers makes the British look like pikers.
That’s the work of generations, not of decades. Those who lose their liberty will not live to see it again.
That’s us. We’re the ones. We’re the ones who failed to keep the Republic, Mr. Franklin.
We don’t deserve the Sweet Meteor of Death: we deserve to reap every last bit of what we’ve sown.
“Putative,” she sneered.
*sputtered*
So, if I noticed the hashtag #Mecca currently trending on Twitter, and then, in an entirely unrelated event started humming “Karma Chameleon”, does that make me a Bad Person?
Trick question. Already was one.
The SF radio station I listen to waiting for traffic reports in the morning interviewed US congresscritter Jackie Speier this morning. They talked of Iran deal and Planned Parenthood and Jackie regurgitated the standard talking points on both.
No one brought up 9/11.
9/11 is a problematic subject. Best to not mention it.
9/11 is problematic. Best to not bring it up.
Like Paleo, I just lost a few comments. They were identical.
Gremlin tracks on the wordpress linoleum.
ok … I don’t know if the spam filter is wonky or what. Just restored Cranky’s
Now I sort of look dumb. So, situation normal.
You know what? I used the “p”word p-matic in my “7 friends” snark thing.
Cranky, which comment do you want to retire? I can do that! :-)
test problematic test
Darleen, I just included the p-word in a test post and it did not publish. I think that is our culprit. We are spam filtering for p-r-o-b-l-e-m-a-t-i-c .
Thanks Palaeo … I just removed “problematic” from the banned word list. Nice detective work.
speaking of never forgetting where is the geoffb and where is the sdferr
I was listening to the local talk show guys a little earlier, talking about the rainbow at the new trade center yesterday, which I saw, then they said today a crane that was working in Mecca was stuck by lightning, exploded, and fell over on the grand mosque, killing like 180 people.
Is that true? I so want it to be true.
Ooo, it IS true.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/234058-breaking-on-14th-anniversary-of-911-giant-crane-falls-on-meccas-grand-mosque-65-dead/
Interesting…
you’re mean you don’t know them people
a crane falled on their heads!
this is not good it’s just not
if the geoffb and the sdferr were here they could explain it more better than me
Penfold, shush.
i’m a not shush not never
and where are the geoffb
and where are the sdferr
what did you people do
You don’t know from mean. I’d drop a MOAB on their nasty Islamic asses if I could.
i don’t believe you’d really do that
you’re not really like that
Has anyone else noticed that threads featuring large amounts of yellow tend to be bereft of the more serious commenters?
“bereft of the more serious commenters?”
you don’t like “little debbies” sir!
and where are the geoffb
and where are the sdferr