Posted on 09/15/2007 2:16:31 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
"If only." Those are the verbal crutches America must discard in a post-September 11, 2001, world.
If only the State Department hadn't been so sloppy in issuing visas to the September 11 hijackers. If only police and state troopers had been able to check the immigration status of the hijackers who were pulled over for speeding before the attacks. If only universities had been more diligent in monitoring the hijackers' whereabouts. If only the feds had listened to alert agents' recommendations to profile young Arab students in our flight schools. If only someone, anyone, had said something when they saw the suspicious behavior of the jihadists on dry runs.
We have borne the bloody costs of coulda-woulda-shoulda. Nearly 3,000 dead. The World Trade Center in ruins. The Pentagon on fire. The fields at Shanksville, Pa., scarred. Six years later, we can no longer afford hindsight heavy breathing. Memory must guide action. And action must be taken without apology.
Zogby released a poll for the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks showing that "77 percent of those living in the East and 46 percent of those living in the West — 61 percent overall — said they think about the attacks at least weekly. Eighty-one percent — 90 percent in the East and 75 percent in the West — said the attacks were the most significant historical events of their lives."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
As usual, Michelle is right on target.
GO MICHELLE!!
Yup; bad statistics.
Them terrorists killed those folks in cold blood; thinking they were doing God's will.
Yet, in the 6 years that have followed, we have managed to not allow 6,000,000 U.S. babies to NOT be born.
(We probably think that WE are doing GOD's will as well.)
[darned double negative!]
Yet, curiously, the east remains as solidly blue-state as ever. Those people got that disconnect thing goin' on...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.