16.8 Forgetting the Lessons of September 11 2001
Alan Jackson wrote a song in which he said what we need is love. Others argue that what we need is hatred and anger, hatred and anger toward the countries that made it possible for Muslim terrorists to kill so many Americans that day. Lance Morrow wrote about that in an article for Time Magazine titled ""The Case for Rage and Retribution". He wrote:
For once, lets have no "Grief counselors" standing by with banal consolations, as if the purpose, in the midst of all this, were merely to make everyone feel better as quickly as possible. We shouldn't feel better...
A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Lets have rage.
What's needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury--a ruthless indignation that doesn't leak away in a week or two.. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self confident relentlessness, and to relearn why human nature has equipped us with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred... As the bodies are counted, into the thousands and thousands, hatred will not, I think, be a difficult emotion to summon. Is the medicine too strong? Call it rather a wholesome and intelligent emnity-the sort that impels even such a prosperous, messily tolerant organism as America to act.
There were others who agreed.
Neil Kressel, in an article titled "Getting Mad: Not Just Healthy, But Vital (New York Post 10/26/01) wrote:
In the end, the biggest danger to our present war effort is not overreaction, but underreaction. With the citizenry angry as hell, the government is more likely to err in the right direction.
A year later Eric Fettman in an OpEd called Where's the Anger (New York Post 8/29/02) wrote:
...what has happened to our anger?
The acute rage, the white-hot fury that nearly all Americans felt in the immediate aftermath of the horrifying murders of 3,000 people seems to have dissipated.
And, with it, the resolve that saw Americans united on the need to utterly demolish international terrorism...
I'm sorry, but I don't want to see mournful processions and bagpipes playing "Amazing Grace" over and over. I want to see a rekindling of the unrestrained anger we once felt...
Yes, taking drastic action on the basis of unrestrained emotion can be dangerous. More often than not, it's necessary to step back a bit and gain some perspective.
But it's just as dangerous when the pendulum of emotion swings to the opposite extreme - and we forget what and why we are fighting.
Darryl Worley wrote a very important song about September 11 called "Have You Forgotten?". I've included the song below.
The attacks of September 11 were carried out by Al Qaeda a Muslim terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden. They were carried out after the United States had retreated in response to previous terrorist attacks. After September 11, America finally woke up and understood what to do. George Bush gave the Taliban of Afghanistan an ultimatum to turn over the Al Qaeda terrorists to the United States. The Taliban refused and the United States attacked Afghanistan. The way to deal with terrorism, is not to retreat but to attack and to attack not only the terrorists but the nations that shelter and sponsor them.
Unfortunately on the 22nd anniversary of September 11, the Biden administration announced that it made a deal with Iran in which it would swap 5 imprisoned Iranians for 5 imprisoned American hostages and release $6,000,000,000 in Iranian assets to the Iranian government. This of course encouraged Iran to take more hostages through it's proxy Hamas on October 7, 2023. Not only that but Iran, which is a state sponsor of terrorists, sponsored more terrorism.
Senator Cotton posted on X:
First Joe Biden used 9/11 as an excuse to flee Afghanistan. Now he desecrates this day by paying ransom to the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism. Shameful.
It's not only shameful, it's dangerous.
What is more shameful is that American leftists have hijacked the curriculum in American schools to blame America for 9/11 and to attack America for Islamophobia. A phobia is an irrational fear. If there is any lesson America should have learned from the September 11 attacks is that fear of Islam is not a phobia. Instead Muslims have spread a phobia of Jews, a phobia fed by Islam whose texts teach Muslims to hate Jews. This phobia is fed by Islamic propaganda in both social and regular media. This phobia turns Americans against Israel, a country that fights the Islamic threat. This phobia or antisemitism diverts Americans from recognizing the real threat of Islam, instead it makes Americans sympathetic toward terrorists who pose a real threat to America. Muslims sympathetic to terrorists are being elected in the United States to positions of power. Abdul El-Sayed a man who justified the murder of 3000 Americans on September 11, won the Michigan democratic primary for senate, in fact, in New York Mamdani was elected mayor. Aber Kawas who suggested that America deserved to be attacked on 9/11 was elected state assemblywoman for Queens.
From the point of view of Islam, America is an infidel nation. Not only that but America supports the infidel Jewish nation of Israel who most Muslims want to be wiped off the face of the earth. From the Islamic perspective infidels are evil who must either submit to Islam or be destroyed. That is the reason for the attacks of September 11.
America has forgotten. Tragically it will be reminded soon.
Additional Links:
She wanted the public to hear her mom's final 9/11 transmission
The decision that saved her life on 9/11
This nurse still carries what she saw on 9/11
Trapped Above 9/11 Impact Zone: The Inside Story Of 73 Restaurant Workers | Windows On The World
How I Survived 9 11 | I worked on the 44th floor Law Firm when the plane Hit
|
