Posted on 08/05/2021 6:09:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan
A month from now, America will be marking the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted here, because it's too sad: we lost the war, not only in the narrow military sense (the Taliban will be back in power in Kabul, if not in time to mark the anniversary, then shortly thereafter), but in the broader defeat represented by the post-Motoon surrender on free speech, Angela Merkel's admission of an army of young Muslim men, the ugly security procedures that now attend the bollard-encircled ancient Continental Christmas markets, and ultimately the reorientation of the generally useless post-9/11 surveillance state as a tool of domestic control.
In the media, the month before 9/11 was a weird, accelerating accumulation of trivial preoccupations, culminating in the ludicrous western prostrations before an international racism conference. Indeed, August 2001 seems far more relevant to where we are now than September 11th does. So I thought we'd revisit a few of my pieces from that last summer.
As a scene-setter, let's begin with this piece from my book on the first year of the new war, The Face of the Tiger. I would not use the word "Islamism" now, because it quickly became clear that it was not a useful distinction (the term was popularized by Christopher Hitchens, although in its original 19th century usage an "Islamist" was synonymous with a Muslim), but I leave it here as originally deployed......
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
This the truth.
In an eerie pre-echo of the world to come, progressive opinion came down on the side of the shark....
Should have bombed Pakistan back to the stone age.
[ Should have bombed Pakistan back to the stone age. ]
We should have invaded saudi arabia... they funded those lunatics for the last 60 years!~
And JDAM’d their funeral gatherings.
Deep State and the ChiComs have killed more Americans so far during the scamdemic than al Qaeda did on 9/11.
. The only wars we lost were not declared properly.
The Civil War was never properly declared—the U.S. Congress did not declare war on the Confederate States of America. Whether “we won” or “we lost” that war depends on your perspective.
BINGO!
Deep State and the ChiComs have killed more Americans so far during the scamdemic than al Qaeda did on 9/11.
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The vaccines have so far killed 4 times the number of people killed on 9/11.
Jessie’s uncle is one tough dude, and a great guy to have around in a time of crisis.
Whatever. Some idiots hijacked planes. BFd
WWII Big deal.
Vietnam. Big deal
9/11. Was stupidity. And unawareness. Pearl Harbor. It was NOT
TODD BEAMER ET ALL AND NEW YORKS FINEST WERE TRUE HEROES
THAT IS THE LESSON TO LEARN !
Imagine if, after the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR referred to Bushido as the Religion of Peace and thereafter worked to pass a Patriot Act that, instead of killing America’s enemies, was turned inward and sought to destroy political opponents and eventually, American society itself.
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