We Remember, We Mourn, And We Do Not Forgive

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[Publicus]

Bush let bin Laden go free for 5 years, 7 days and counting. That was the beggining of his dismal failure in the "War on Terror".

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

[Jeremayakovka]

More on radical gay undermining of Israeli sovereignty: the Boycott World Pride site (because the event is/was held in Jerusalem).

[Raphael Shimon]

Well done

[weekenderman]

Amen, brian!!!

[nofate]

Beautiful tribute Alexandra. There is a site out there called 2996 that signed up 2,996 bloggers to each take one victim and write a tribute. I took one, Jean Marie Collin, and was struck most by the fact that she was there that day by chance. She was a risk manager and was only there at the World Trade Center to give a seminar. She had competed in and finished three NY city marathons.
While I agree with those here that want to get the bastards that murdered these people, I also think it is important to remember those who died, and to pay tribute to their sacrifice.
NEVER Forget!

[RunningRoach]

Hey mac,

I think some of us should organize a "Straight Day" or "Straight Pride" day along with all the pomp and circumstance as the Gay crowd. Would be interesting viewing, however I don’t think that the MSM would cover the event even if we could get a million straight guys to march down Fifth Avenue.

Regards,

JCC

[mac Brachman]

Correction: I meant the only annual gay rights parade in the Middle East. Sorry. Shalom, Mac Brachman

[mac Brachman]

Crusader:

Re your comments about leftist flacks for the Islamist extremists: you'd be interested in Bret Stephens's column on WSJ op-ed page today (Tues. 9/12) on the same subject. He points out that many militant leftists, not excluding gay activists, hate and detest Israel, and the irony being that the only annual gay rights parade takes place in Tel Aviv every year. Lenin called non-Marxist rabid haters of Western capitalist societies "useful idiots," and their bohemian artistic tastes and libertarian frames of mind did not fit with the "democratic centralism" of Lenin's agenda (Lenin's euphemism for one-party dictatorship). Lenin made it clear that such persons would quickly become nonpersons once the Communist "revolution" (it was really more a coup d'etat, violently overthrowing the pluralist liberal democracy of Kerensky) was consolidated. The Islamist ideologues are if anything more ruthless and uncompromising than Lenin and his heirs, who at least were trying to build a future human society. The Islamists believe that the very destruction of human civilization, and all life with it, is legitimate to usher in Allah's dominion. Sheehan and Moore are not only despicable and hypocritical; they're foolish. But then, I always thought celebrity-hunger and narcissism, more than true principle, underlay the actions of Sheehan and Moore. Shalom, Mac Brachman

[David Foster]

"being enthusiastically helped by our own media and intellectuals"...yes. Terrorism would be a threat, but not an existential one, if it were not for those members of our own society who choose either to deny the reality of the situation or, even worse, to excuse and romanticize our enemies.

There's a metaphor that's been bothering me for the last couple of days. While visiting an old, restored industrial facility, I encountered a device, circa 1900, known as an "attrition mill." It consists of two steel discs, mounted close together and driven at high speed in opposite directions. Kernels of grain between the counter-rotating discs are crushed into fine powder.

Metaphorically, I fear that our civilization is caught in a gigantic attrition mill, with one disc being the terrorist enemy, and the other being the nihilists and reality-deniers within our own societies.

[Freedom Fighter]

Hello, Baroness..I hope all's well.

I see no reason to commemorate 9/11.

Frankly, the wreaths, the tears and the sentimental tolling of bells makes me want to scream.

We should save the memorials for later, after we're victorious..now THAT would be a fitting memorial.
J O S H U A P U N D I T: 9/11, five years later

[igout]

We all got off on the wrong foot 5 years ago. We all called it a tragedy, as if it were a cataclysmic act of nature. We all listened to the sobby music that poured out over the airwaves, and brought teddy bears to the ruins. We blubbered when we should have gotten steely-cold angry. I ignored yesterday's weepy fest; I don't want remembrance. I want vengeance.
Hopefully, away from the idiot-press, the clowns in the Democrat Party, Amnesty International and the other useless mouths, hard men and women in remote venues, who aren't too squeamish about the rights of animals, are bringing me some.

[Crusader.NoRegrets.]

Ernesto. Thankyou, and God Bless you.

These are the darkest years of the West in hundreds of years. We may not make it through this age intact. Who'd have thought, it woudn't be Hitler, or Stalin, or the Soviet menace who brought us down. It'd be some Islamic Wackos being enthusiastically helped by our own media and intellectuals.

Oh well, the Left will be the real victims of US collapse, not regular, conservative working stiffs like me. I'm definitely not going to eat a bullet marching in the streets for the rights of someone like Cindy Sheehan. And I suspect the Caliphate wants guys like you and me to stick around and help run things, after all is said and done ;o)

The Michael Moores and Cindy Sheehans of the world are "expendable" to them, having served their purpose.

[brian]

As expected, Alexandra remembers that day with the proper reverance. I would just add that the best revenge is success. If we keep killing terrorists, I am willing to forgive some mistakes in tactics as long as those mistakes are committed in the pusuit of an agressive, forward strategy. The absolutely unforgivable mistake would be to turn inward, forsaking the forward strategy in favor of defensive denial. That mistake would dwarf any alleged mistakes made so far. We must not abandon our proud history of defending freedom for all who seek it, wherever they may be.

To Islamic fascists everywhere: You should learn from history that others have tried what you are trying. Remember a quote from another of America's past enemies.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The quote has come down to us as one of the most famous lines ever uttered by anyone during World War II.

That terrible resolve is unmistakenly there, and it's not going away anytime soon. The "paper tiger" is in fact flesh and blood, fire and steel. May you all rot in hell with 72 virgin porcupines.

[saul davis]

PPS: On the last URL, thanks to Ace for the link.

[saul davis]

Follow up to my last post -- interesting NRO article by eye witness to Pentagon attack -- http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins040902.asp

[saul davis]

Alexandra: Thank you; a few but very powerful words with excellant links (as usual); I work downtown -- about five minutes walk from the memorial site; to this day I find it difficult to walk past the memorial; I used to take walks down to that area on a regular basis; I could not bring myself to walk there for about six months after Sep 11 '01; my feelings of anger at those who committed this atrocity remain extant - hopefully, we will remain strong in combating those who seek our downfall; the War against Islamofascists, however, should not be limited to our efforts to physically annihilate those who seek our destruction; an essential element (one which you have so eloquently discussed in the past) in this regard is the war against misinformation, for proper and truthful information is an essential tool in any war, especially one founded upon the central beliefs/philosophies of our enemies; part and parcel of the war against the west by Islamofascists is what I like to refer to as the Goebbels syndrome -- the Islamofascists are, after all the present-day descendants (and precedents for) the Nazis; it is quite amazing the extent Islamists (although they are not alone in this regard) go to undermine their/the Muslim involvement in Sep. 11 -- despite OBL's own admissions; it is critical that we know what they say, and ensure that their Big Lies are not even given a grain of truth or acceptance; to properly understand how far they are going in this regard, I would highly recommend visiting LGF -- http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ -- and viewing the somewhat lengthy MEMRI video regarding the Islamofascists attempts to eliminate/undermine Muslim involvement in Sep 11; the video is under the title: "Arab and Iranian reaction to 9/11"; MEMRI, as usual, performs a critical service for the West.

[mac Brachman]

Nothing to say. Nothing to add. Only memories and thoughts coming back, and the feelings forever. God bless those murdered on 9/11/01, and
God DAMN those who did it. Shalom, Mac Brachman

[Ernesto Ribeiro]

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE FANTASY

Olavo de Carvalho
O Globo, September 15, 2001

When a single phenomenon is described in two opposite ways, first by those at the center of the events and then by those who suffered its effects from a distance, the first version is most likely the reality while the second is fantasy. But there’s more to it than that. If we don’t know how fantasy was born from reality itself, we don’t understand the reality.

The clearest example is the New World Order. From Brazil’s perspective, a periphery nation, this concept is merely a new name for U.S. capitalism. From the U.S. perspective, at the center of the debate, it is a socialist project and essentially anti-American.

Obviously the Americans are seeing what is really there, and we, in turn, are delirious as always. Some scandalous facts, mostly hidden from Brazilian public opinion, can reveal this clearly:

1) In the past decade, the U.S. dismantled its nuclear defense system, reducing its stock of atomic weapons to a fifth of the size of the Russian and Chinese reserves, while ceding control of strategic areas like the Panama Canal to Beijin and allowing Chinese spies free reign on American soil.

2) At the same time, the U.S. openly violated its own Constitution by ceding increasingly larger shares of its national sovereignty to the UN, and admitting the interference of international organs into domestic affairs, such as education. As a result, text books adopted in public schools today are infused with anti-American propaganda and rigorously purged of all signs of patriotism and Christianity.

3) U.S. territory has been invaded and taken over by European NGOs backing Indians and ecologist causes. As early as the first half of the 1980s, 10% of the country’s total land area was out of control of citizens’ and the government’s hands, summing up to what was already at that time the largest transfer of real estate in human history.

4) The concessions that the ruling class has made to the New Left since the 1960s have transformed the academic, journalistic, and film establishment into a totally out-of-control anti-American propaganda machine. U.S. universities have become the largest source of Marxist indoctrination on the planet, surpassing the former Soviet university system.

5) The violent repression of any anti-Communism protest disabled the government from preventing Soviet spies and later Chinese spies from infiltrating the FBI, CIA, the National Security Agency, and military intelligence services. Ironically, while the opening of the Moscow Files has retroactively lent credence to Joe McCarthy and proved that the Communist presence in the federal government during the 1950s was even larger than he suspected, and while Soviet and Chinese operatives have admitted that Communist powers spent much more money on psychological warfare in the U.S. during the Vietnam War than on battlefield equipment, the much bigger penetration of the 1970s-90s took place under the auspices of “political correctness” which used the term “fascism” to label those who dared discuss it in the press.

Pretending a nation that disarms and weakens itself to such a point would at the same time be behind the height of global imperialism is absurd to the point of lunacy. The U.S. is not the owner of globalism. It is the first and largest victim of it. It’s true that some large U.S. fortunes influence the forces determining the new state of things. But to confuse the plans of a half dozen monopolistic dynasties with the national interest of the U.S. or with the spirit of liberal capitalism is more than dumb: it’s crazy. Monopolies and liberalism are opposing terms, and many of these monopolistic organizations have already proven their congenital anti-Americanism by financing the two totalitarian regimes that have worked hardest to destroy the U.S.: the Communist Soviet Union, and the Nazis.

Still, this foolishness is not born of nothing. These organizations are the same ones that, alongside the anxiously willing European Economic Community, have subsidized the majority of leftist movements on the globe and now awaken a global wave of anti-American sentiment, clearly present at the Durban Conference. They were the ones also who, under the pretext of anti-racism, installed pro-Communist governments in South Africa and Zimbabwe, which today are guilty of ethnic cleansing that the conference, in its ominous silence, has transformed from hideous crime into a right and merit.

A simple study of the sources of financing for Brazilian scholarships, fellowships, publications and research programs show that, without the help of these helpful monopolistic organizations, all leftist thought would practically disappear from the public eye.

The foolish fantasy, therefore, reveals its entire reason for being: if global monopolies strive in the U.S. to dilute national sovereignty in subservience to the “international community,” then logically they subsidize radical rhetoric in foreign countries that blame the U.S. for the evils of the oppressive New World Order. The oldest trick in the book of the criminal is to demonize the victims.

Leftist intellectuals, after all, always need some money and are drawn to the first carrot dangled in front of their noses. Nobody serves better for manipulations of this type of uneducated, verbose, vain, and foolish intellectual activist which Third World universities annually launch on the market in stunning numbers.

It’s no surprise that, without a clear intellectual vision of what occurs in the world, these persons are equally devoid of moral conscience and, in fighting for good, take the defense of any hideous crime that seems to aim the “bête noire” of their delirium: the Yankee imperialism.

There has been no shortage on this country’s television and in newspapers of those trying to diminish the horror of the September attacks, justifying them as “inevitable consequences” of George W. Bush’s foreign policy, as if complex terrorist operations could be improvised in the few months after the new president took office.

George W. Bush said after the horrors of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that the U.S. was dedicated to “no longer distinguish between terrorists and those who harbor them.” How can one not also include among those protectors people who perform operations of misinformation and psychological warfare in the media, through ignorance or perfidy, whose support can determine the success of any armed aggression?

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/#news

Olavo de Carvalho is an Brazilian university professor, philosopher, thinker, author of a dozen books and self-made investigative journalist. He presently lives in Virginia, and works as a correspondent for Brazilian newspapers.

[Ghost Dansing]

Did you call my name? Did you call my name in the night?
In the whispers and sighs, in the whispers and sighs of the night
Ah ghosts in the wind, eh ghosts in the wind
Now this old house moves, this old house moves and moans
The tongues of the night, the tongues of the night stir my bones
Ah ghosts in the wind, oh ghosts in the wind
When will my sore heart ever mend
I'm empty and cold, I'm empty and cold like a ruin
The wind tears through me, the wind tears through me like a ruin
Ah ghosts in the wind, oh ghosts in the wind
When will my sore heart ever mend
Ghosts in the wind, ah ghosts in the wind

Richard Thompson, Ghosts in the Wind

[Stefan]

Alexandra,
Of all the tributes I’ve seen today this one is really the most poignant. If we were to distill down the lessons of 9/11 we would end up with these faces and the lives they represent. They are not the fodder of war nor are they mere casualty statistics. Terrorism is the one of the ultimate forms of violent, dehumanizing, utilitarianism that humans have ever devised. The most important first step in fighting it is to relentlessly “re-humanize” its victims.

May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

[gringoman]

Scores of chanters at Ground Zero today, all wearing blue tee shirts saying INVESTIGATE 9.11. I jabbered with some of the young 'uns, who came in from all over the country. They're not sure if Bush did it--was he smart enough?--but they're pretty certain it was an inside job. They get their proof on the Internet. Comes the telecom revolution.

Holiday? For them 9.11 is not exactly a holiday. It's a whodunnit.

I forgot to ask which they'd choose if they could have only one: legalizing pot or cut-and-run from Iraq.

[Ernesto Ribeiro]

Every man, woman, child which lost the life that day may be remembered.

And the MEANING of that historical tragedy is perfectly clear for any sane human being: the most brutal attack made us open our eyes for many other facts – in the last years, decades, centuries – whose the most people did not want face: the crude reality about 'respectable' peoples and their beliefs.

These times we are SHAKED in order to remember: human life is the true value to defend. All the rest is consequence. That's the origin of Good and Evil. That's why we may to choose our side.

[Jeremayakovka]

Let us never forget, too, that for about half the world, today is a holiday.

be well,
-J