Posted on 09/26/2007 6:42:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Security: Newly released books and films show a growing pop-culture bias against U.S. counterterror efforts. It's another sign the pendulum is swinging back to a 9/10 state of mind.
Six years ago we were united as a nation against a common enemy — 300 million Americans resolved to defeat Islamic extremists. Even Hollywood was on board. But as the nightmare that befell our nation dims, we have turned our anger inward. Now the enemy is portrayed in pop culture as the government, the military and law enforcement — the very forces aligned to protect us from the Islamist enemy. The terrorists are now the victims — of human rights abuses and civil-liberties violations and intolerance. Racism is now viewed as a bigger threat than Islamofascism. The new zeitgeist is on display in book stores and theaters. There you'll find a surfeit of new books and movies critical of the war on terror, including:
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
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Never thought I’d live to see the day when anyone forgot 9/11. Jesus Wept.
How easy we forget.
Wondering if a smoldering hole in the ground where a city used to be, will help them remember?
Never happened, the leftists were just laying low until the dust settled in NYC, but they were there and just as anti-American as ever. How many minutes did it take after that first plane hit before you heard “Islam is a religion of peace”?
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I would like to think that it would. However I am more inclined to think that another catastrophic attack would only make the head-in-the-sand apologists more rabid in their denounciation of the United States and our efforts.
They haven’t forgotten it. They are just stupid enough to believe it was all a huge GWB conspiracy.
You know, pretty soon the GOp is going to have to relenqush its claim to the title of “The Stupid Party” to the Moveon.org DemocRats.
No surprise there. It's old hippies running things at the moment.
Whether politician, media hack or useful idiot, their cup should be overflowing with just deserts.
Mmmmm. Desert.
Bullcrap!
I agree.
Six years ago we were united as a nation against a common enemy — 300 million Americans resolved to defeat Islamic extremists.
Yes, until about noon Pacific time.
Within hours the best and brightest Bee brains had an editorial blaming us for the attack, we shared the blame along with the attackers who were just trying to get our attection because we refuse to "understand" the rest of the world.
Within days of 9/11 liberals were calling the shows I listen to and emphatically stating that no way would they fly the Flag. The Flag was too Republican, they said.
Almost immediately the debate in the MSM was between those who would wear a Flag pin on the air and those who never wear a U.S. Flag pin on the air. They're professionals, you see.
A few weeks after the attacks the Sacramento Bee publisher was booed off the stage as she repeated the Bee editors' opinion and condemned Bush / Ashcroft for being mean to accused terrorists.
As the invasion of Iraq was being discussed there were MSM types like Ellen Ratner letting it be known that she hoped Bush would fail in Iraq because it would help the Democrats in 2004, I believe that was her main reason. Of course Bush failing would mean many U.S. dead, but hey! ... it's for the Party.
Most likely, they will heap all of the blam on GWB, claiming that if we hadn’t invaded “peaceful” Iraq, the terrorists would have left us alone.
He said that we shouldn’t hit back and we should try to ‘understand’ why they hate us. Otherwise they would hit us back worse.
We were traumatized and he was spreading this leftist BS 2 days after the attacks practically in the shadows of the WTC. His raving during a time of weakness contributed to me being a Lib for years.
We were never ‘all’ united. Idiots abound.
They only love us when we are dying.
My thoughts exactly for the past 5 years or so. I am afraid it will take something like that to make people realize WHAT, not WHO we are dealing with...............
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God love you, varyouga, you have seen the light. Keep up the good work!
Forgot 9/11? How many people out there don’t even know it happened.It amazes me how many people give a blank stare at the mention of 9/11
Brenda Butner: "You're basically saying that he's going to be re-elected, I mean, essentially, unless the economy tanks ..."
Ratner: "That is, unless he messes up the war ... my hope."
Butner: "Your hope?"
Ratner: "Well, I don't want him to be re-elected."
Butner: "Right, but I mean, 'mess up the war.' What do you mean by that?"
Ratner: "Do something that will make Americans say 'Maybe we shouldn't have done this.' You know, that kind of thing."
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Another Democrat stalwart, Gary Kamiya of salon.com on April 11, 2003, wrote that he and his "intellectual" friends hoped the Iraq resistance would do maximum damage to U.S. troops.
More Dems: Columbia University assistant professor Nicholas DeGenova wished for "a million Mogadishus"
Of course the Iraq-related comments were months after 9/11/01 but speak loudly for the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) "that supports our troops but not the mission."
Yes, we are far removed from ever "coming together." Here's part of why I think so: "they" do not want to come together. Unlike the Viet Nam war they do not want the enemy to win but..
Popular on the left Robert Jensen author and employee of the journalism department of a major university responding to "unfair" criticism wrote "I did write that the U.S. losing the Iraq war was a good thing -- not in celebration of death and destruction, of course, but because the defeat temporarily restrains policymakers in their dangerous attempts to extend the U.S. empire."
Mr. Jensen is in David Horowitz's book, "The Professors -- The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America."
Mr. Jensen kinda of nails something "Instead of claiming, 'America is the greatest nation on Earth,' we might say, 'I live in the United States and have deep emotional ties to its people, land and ideals, and I want to highlight the many positive things while working to change what is wrong.'"
Change what is wrong. That is exactly why we can never, never come together again. "They" think that we and our America are THE wrong. It's not their America -- yet.
Mr. Jensen finishes this column with this:
"Everyone, including journalists, needs to ask: Can we move beyond being American?
"Given the destructive capacity of the United States -- and our history of using it in the interests of power, not people -- never before has our answer been more important."
The solution is to move beyond this America and stop being American until it's fixed. The old "fix it or forget it" 1960s bumper sticker.
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