All You Need is Love?

The 9/11 commemoration speech from Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick according to Mark Steyn included this beauty, that the attack:

“was a mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States,” and “was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.”

Rather than learning to love each other or say an Atta it would be wiser to understand an Atta. If no further than understanding an Atta, it would be best to take an Atta at his words and anyone else that has a deranged view of the world.

Steyn sees this as do many others, as a result of our “multi-cultural” beliefs and attitudes that assumes we are all the same; just from different places. We’re not all the same, nor should we try to make those out to do us harm equal to us. If crowds of people chant “death to America,” we should consider that an indication that they don’t much care for us. When someone that fits a “profile” and is traveling from say, Saudi Arabia, we should stop and consider that perhaps this fella has some plans that we might not really like the result of and treat him as such before he boards the aircraft.

If “multi-culturalism” is the way to go, yet children in say, Palestine are reared to despise Israel and all Jews, watch “Hamas Mickey” like after school specials on TV and rehearse for school plays with the kiddies as masked men, soldiers and the like, we might want to think about the fact that these children, as unfair and evil as their upbringing is, are not too malleable to our way of seeing things.

We should certainly strive to understand other cultures and not dislike someone just because of their culture of origin, but we should view those cultures with skepticism that rely on the fanaticism of hating ours, with dreams of annihilation.

Mark Steyn’s “One Mean and Nasty War: Massachusetts tough talk” at NRO.

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September 11, 2001 is Ancient History; Let's just forget it

“Does anyone go out on the streets of New York and commemorate the firing on Fort Sumter?”

Why continue to commemorate September 11, 2001? This is a question the NY Times asked or at least wrote about on the second of this month.

From the toilet paper of record:

“Each year, murmuring about Sept. 11 fatigue arises, a weariness of reliving a day that everyone wishes had never happened. It began before the first anniversary of the terrorist attack. By now, though, many people feel that the collective commemorations, publicly staged, are excessive and vacant, even annoying.”

I suppose it is a valid enough question, but it’s also an odd question. It’s been almost six years since the attack on our soil that took the lives of so many people that were innocently going about their day. This was no Katrina that was a natural disaster with poor responses from local, state and federal agencies, but the media will tout that anniversary with a vengeance at least until the Bush Administration is no more.

September 11, 2001 was a day of sorrow with many more to follow; once the tide of grieving changed many people and the media have tried to make it go away as though now, six years later it might be a good idea to let it go. The reason from the perspective of the media is more in line with keeping the tide of anger or offense from our minds; after all the military actions of our nation since then has been ignorant, hegemonic and undiplomatic in nature, at least to them. We don’t hear a lot from the msm on this subject as we might and I believe one reason for this is they do not want the public’s emotion to affect our foreign policy and even national policy as this is the mo of the msm and is not for us, the common public.

These days I get a bit tweaked that D-Day and Pearl Harbor are somewhat ignored, but those days in history are a ways back; they’re also much easier for the msm to ignore. There is also that possibility that this may help the forces of pride in our nation, which is something the msm cannot countenance.

Our media has chosen to not offer glimpses of that day due to concern for our feelings or emotions. What’s this all about?

September 11, 2001 did more, much more than take the lives of 3,000+ people. It opened the eyes of many if not most in this nation that there are forces in the world that would and will do us harm. Much of that is forgotten these days as the msm prefers to paint others with the blame and that the best way to deal with it would be to ease up internationally, since our previous actions in our history are what really brought this attack on the nation.

Had they their way, we would forget all this silly commemoration and go about our lives; this would make their jobs all the easier. In life as time passes tragedy is easier to deal with, especially if you were someone that was not personally affected by this date with the loss of a family member or friend. Those of us that don’t miss someone, perhaps almost daily may get by without the commemoration, but that doesn’t mean it would be a good idea to forget.

We, as a nation, have gotten passed much of what that day revealed to us about the world we live in; it’s a shame that there may be a necessity for a repeat to open our sluggish eyes again. Those that inform us of what is important (msm) have done its share in making this date appear like ancient history or an anomaly. Assuredly the attack itself could be considered somewhat of an anomaly if it makes us feel better, but that doesn’t really change anything.

9/11 is not a war or battle cry, but it is a huge piece of the puzzle in explaining the actions of our military over the past half decade; forgetting or ignoring that will do much more to tie our hands in the future when faced with difficult questions, questions many would prefer to believe don’t warrant asking.

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A Professorial attempt at "Putting 9/11 into perspective"

Not to be taken as belittling the loss of 3,000 lives on 9/11/01, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, David A. Bell asks us to consider that if we had lost 20 million on 9/11 forward that this would be:

"what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II,"

He believes:

"contemplating these numbers may help put in perspective what the United States has so far experienced during the war against terrorism."

It would appear someone from the Left has finally taken a stand regarding the number of deaths that would allow for the prosecution of this "war on terror."

"Even if one counts our dead in Iraq and Afghanistan as casualties of the war against terrorism, which brings us to about 6,500, we should remember that roughly the same number of Americans die every two months in automobile accidents."

"Has the American reaction to the attacks in fact been a massive overreaction? Is the widespread belief that 9/11 plunged us into one of the deadliest struggles of our time simply wrong? If we did overreact, why did we do so? Does history provide any insight?"

Now I understand where the term, "educated guess" comes from....."Putting 9/11 into perspective."

Hey, after thought, perhaps he should write about theories as fact, "Putting global warming into perspective."