Posted on 12/02/2023 1:17:12 PM PST by Salman
Shock. Horror. And then acceptance.
“Today, millions of Americans mourned and prayed, and tomorrow we go back to work,” President George W. Bush began his address days after 9/11. “Tomorrow the good people of America go back to their shops, their fields, American factories, and go back to work.”
“We cannot let the terrorists achieve the objective of frightening our nation to the point where we don’t — where we don’t conduct business, where people don’t shop,” he urged in a later press conference.
Defeating the terrorists meant going on with business as usual. And we did.
Life changed. Flying became grueling. There were alerts and terror plots and we stopped paying attention to them. A generation was born and came of age who had never known another life.
It’s not so different in most countries where Islamic Jihadis perform their regular rounds of terror. Israel has been the canary in the coal mine in more ways than one. The scenes we’ve come to accept as normal in Boston, Paris or Manchester, dying flowers on streets, tearful women resting their heads on the shoulders of men while a sad song plays, assertions that we are stronger than the terrorists and will not lose our humanity were all field tested out in Israel.
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(Excerpt) Read more at danielgreenfield.org ...
Excerpt is a teaser. Whole thing is worth reading.
Those bastards succeeded in putting a HUGE drag on the US economy with lost productivity and enhanced security — maybe a cumulative trillion dollars in 20 years. That money doesn’t do anything to make the USA more productive and it contributes to inflation.
I tell my kids all the time — You have no idea what this country was like before 2000. Completely different country, in so many ways.
It’s not all about the terrorism. But the US government did discover that there are advantages to having a population live in fear. We are now supposed to live in fear all the time. Viruses, vaccines, weather, terrorism, crime, you name it.
After 9/11 we should not have changed a single thing in this country. Should have just kept calm and carried on. And possibly considered nuking Tehran or other big city that supported terrorism as a weapon.
I think it goes back further than that.
I’m old enough to remember flying before all the hijackings and the 1970’s flight “security”.
Note that 1970’s “security” didn’t prevent 911.
As aritcle states......”Being terrorized can be expressed just as much through adaptation and numbness as through fear and anger. The failure to fight back and end the state of terror is what being ‘terrorized’ looks like....In America, having terrorists blow things up around us became background noise. It happens sometimes, as it recently did in North Dakota, but we try not to pay too much attention to it.”....it’s happening only because our governments are refusing to end it.”
Islamic terrorism exists for one reason alone... And the reason is that we tolerate it....The only acceptable answer to Islamic terrorism is to utterly destroy it while making the terrorist supporting populations pay the largest share of the price for that destruction.....what is normal is for terrorists to adapt to running for their lives. ...
Muslim terrorism is a norm within Islamic societies, but abnormal in ours. If we continue to accept it, we will end up living in an Islamic society and the abnormal will become the norm.
Everything he writes is well worth reading!
Yes, there was a time when leaving the house armed with a five shot snubbie would be considered sufficiently armed. Feel naked now carrying that.
To “destroy Islamic terrorism,” Western Civilizations will have to join together to destroy the heart and “soul” of Islam!
The Crusaders had the right idea!
Just as in the past 1401 years that Islam has forced people and countries to Islamic ways, we must force Islamic people and countries to adopt Western ways!
I do not believe Western Civilizations have the intestinal fortitude to do that.
I would much rather protect myself from terrorists than be forced to protect myself from my own government.
Thanks for making my point!
That indirectly addresses what else I would like to see from the author. OK, sir, you have sold us on the point that we are not doing anything about terrorism. Now what we need is a list of specific things that should be done.
Cassandra was great at saying bad things are going to happen. But what was needed was a plan to destroy the Greeks.
Maybe Joe Biden did us one favor. Not one liberal or progressive was seen to object when he declared that no Amendment is absolute. So if, faced with destruction of civilization, stern measures are taken, no progressive or liberal can honestly protest implementing the Biden Doctrine against Islamic terrorism,can they?
Yeah, I know, they are not honest....
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