9/11 and history
IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been yet another wave. Now imagine that the attacks had continued, every six hours, for another four years, until nearly 20 million Americans were dead. This is roughly what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, and contemplating these numbers may help put in perspective what the United States has so far experienced during the war against terrorism.It also raises several questions. 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?
This won’t play well with the “clash of civilizations” crew, but it raises several good points. Did we overreact? Of course we did, since we’ve spent billions upon billions of dollars- dollars we don’t actually have- to fight two wars against nations that didn’t attack us on 9/11, while the person who supposedly ordered the “surprise” attack walks around free. We inflamed anti-American feelings globally, squandered whatever goodwill the attacks brought us, and increased the level of terrorism world-wide. Not to mention the pillaging of our national identity, taking us from a nation under the rule of law to a nation under the rule of one- a tyranny.
Continue reading Was 9/11 Really That Bad?
January 31st, 2007 at 7:20 am
“IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives.”
do you remember what i said shortly after 9/11? that if we’d really been under “attach”, the terr’ists would have continued with their bombardment? setting off car and ryder truck bombs made of fertilizer, kerosene, westclox alarm clocks, and nine volt batteries at every major highway interchange, train crossing, bus depot, wal-mart shopping center and strip mall in america?
that they didn’t, and haven’t in over five years, isn’t the testamony of the quality of our intel or law inforcement that the hawks would like to believe, or have us believe, but a testamony to the fact that there is no terror to war upon. there is no “war on terror”, only a war on our wallets, and our personal freedoms. for example, of all the shoe less joes wandering through airport security, how many explosives have been found in the jimmy choos, the floresheims, the reebox?
yeah, i thought so.
this nation has a really nasty habit, reflected in some of the statements made by my mother and FOXNews recently, of taking a single incident and making it an epidemic. thus destroying the very definition of “epidemic”.
so mom? you’re eternal. your insanity is now on TTP! congratulations. have another martini.