What is there to say on the 8th anniversary of the attacks on America? I suppose I could say the same things I said on the 7th, and add what I said a couple of days before that.
Or I can quote what President Obama said today:
“Let us renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still,” Mr. Obama said. “In defense of our nation, we will never waver.”
And add what he said back in August, to a VFW gathering in Phoenix:
The insurgency in Afghanistan didn’t just happen overnight and we won’t defeat it overnight, but we must never forget: This is not a war of choice; it is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda could plot to kill more Americans.
With more than a few out there faltering, I thought it would be good to bring those words to the fore.
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Obama and the leftist Democrats chanted those slogans about Irag being “a diversion from the real war in Afghanistan”. Now they are in power and don’t want fight any of our enemies. We need 30,000 more troops now in Afghanistan and need to attack Al Qaeda in Pakistan, but Obama cannot do anything. Another of his lies has come home to roost.
Here it is at the end of the day on 9/11/2009 and only one comment about the events that took place 8 years ago when we lost 3,000 of our own to a multi-prong Muslim terrorist attack on the civilian population of America.
I guess some feel we have moved on and 9/11/2001 is just a footnote in history. Others believe it is not “good form” to discuss it since it may upset those who are Muslim.
I was standing in line at the airport that morning when my wife called to tell me about the first building. When I went to the lounge for coffee, the second tower was hit and everyone knew without a doubt, this was no accident, we were under attack on our own soil for the first time since December 7, 1941.
We didn’t know who was responsible and why civilians? My flight was cancelled and all flights grounded until the crisis was over. I was angry and wanted our planes in the air in an act of defiance and nervous bravado. I wanted to do something, anything, just to show how much it hurt and how much I wanted to do something to protect my country.
I tried calling friends in Manhattan but couldn’t get through to anyone. One friend shared an office in the Twin Towers and another had his office a block away. I was worried and didn’t rest until I was able to contact both families. Luckily, both were out of the city when the attacks occurred.
In one morning, our lives changed forever. We were facing something new and unknown. We had an enemy without a fixed face and one who could move without detection, one without an organized army to fight.
We as a nation made mistakes along the way since 9/11 because we were facing something unlike the armies of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. We had to find our way by trial and error because we had no history to fall back on in a wartime situation like the one we were facing. And, yes, it was war, not a random criminal act by a gang of local thugs.
George W. Bush made mistakes along the way, not because of some desire to take away our rights or civil liberties but a genuine desire to protect the country the best way he could under the circumstances. I hold him responsible for a lot of mistakes he made on other issues but on this one, I can find no blame to place on his shoulders.
It is a shame no one saw fit to at least acknowledge our modern “Day of Infamy” and the loss of American civilian lives on 9/11/2009.
It is sad how Democrats were so supportive of war in Iraq in 1998, after 9/11/2001, the facts leaked out about how Clinton let Bin Laden and Al Qaeda go untouched.
Democrats, shamed and in denial of their failure to protect America, ramped up a media campaign against Bush, and against the war they started and failed to execute.