Posted on 10/24/2001 8:15:43 AM PDT by goodnesswins
A woman (Jennie?) who was standing at the base of the Twin Towers waiting for a bus on 9/11 died today. She had burns over 90% of her body from the burning jet fuel which doused her while she was waiting for a bus. Doctors said she would live only 36 hours, but she survived 41 days until today, 10/24/01. Prayers to her family.
Sorry I don't have better information - couldn't find anything else.
With our short attention spans, many will forget the reasons for the bombing and the war against terrorism, making it easier for the Bidens and other assorted naysayers to second guess the war efforts as time passes.
What better way to support the effort to eradicate terrorism than to keep before the American people the images of the thousands of lives and families destroyed by these senseless acts?
Rock concerts won't do it, but the sadness and sorrow of burials and funerals might.
Too busy covering peaceful muslims being given dirty looks on their way to the mosque where they donate money to terrorists. Poor things. How awful to get those dirty looks from us infidels. Why are we so mean? (/sarcasm)
That is a darned good question.
Nightly news would be well served to give us one biography a night for 6000 nights, lest we forget and be distracted by Richard Gere or Susan Sarandon again.
Focus on thier legacy and thier sacrifice instead of some washed out has been riding twin tower coat tails for career betterment
And it has a darned disturbing answer: the reason is because such coverage would demand a public discussion of good and evil, right and wrong. Avoidance of those issues is the very heart and soul of political correctness.
The backbone of liberalism is tolerance -- the idea that people can disagree, yet still live together in peace. And it's a good thing, too, so long as you and I share the same basic moral framework. Liberalism assumes this to be the case, because it has generally been the case in the past.
The problem arises when we come across a moral framework that is fundamentally different from our own. Liberals are unable to conceive of a guy like Osama bin Laden, who just plain wants us dead.
Add to that the tendency toward liberal self-blame: "I'm so tolerant, that anything that goes wrong, must be my fault." (This is actually a form of pridefulness -- the idea that my actions are what ultimately cause bin Laden to be a murderer.) This is why we see lots of coverage of civilian casualties in Afghanistan -- because it feeds that sense of gratification that goes along with an admission of guilt.
Paying attention to the Jennies of the world would demolish that worldview. Jennie was murdered in a most awful way while waiting for a bus, and she was killed by evil men bent on doing murder. Liberal guilt cannot explain that fact, and tolerance of bin Laden will not prevent him from trying to do it again.
To acknowledge and understand the death of Jennie and several thousand others would completely shatter the foundation of modern liberalism. Their entire philosophy -- of life, government, society -- would be destroyed. It's quite simply unthinkable to go there, and so they won't do it.
And, because leading liberals are often smart folks, they can argue and rationalize their way around the problem. That explains why they're busily playing up the "poverty and Western exploitation breed terrorism" gambit. It's our fault, see, and we just have to work harder to tolerate bin Laden and his pals, and everybody will play nice from now on. The near-universal failure of this approach throughout all of history actually doesn't matter -- to them, the important thing is not results, but the care and feeding of their world-views.
For a better thumbnail, see Paul Greenberg's column on Eric Hoffer, paying particular attention to the discussion on True Believers, who adhere to this: "All mass movements strive to impose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world."
Normal people are not so sophisticated -- they simply see the evil for what it is, and aren't concerned about the demise of a world-view they don't share anyway.
The next step is to work hard to bring that discussion into public view. Letters to the editor, not staying silent when a liberal speaks, and calls to talk radio help. But nost importantly, we've got to live our lives as if there is such a thing as evil. Liberals win when we let them pretend evil doesn't exist. (And it's easier for us, too.)
Paying attention to the Jennies of the world would demolish that worldview.
Yes, and it feeds into another of their fallacies: that there is a moral equivalency between the deliberate murders of 5,000+ civilian Americans by the terrorists which led to a declaration by the offended nation of a state of war, and the resulting incidental deaths of civilians after the terrorists and their sponsors refused conditions of surrender prior to the beginning of any military action.
The same radical left insisted throughout the years of the Cold War that there existed a moral equivalency between the ideas of liberty as expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution and the totalitarian regimes whose ideas centered around the Communist Manifesto.
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