I purposefully do not write on 9/11 if it falls on a column day as it did earlier this week. I was nervous at the 11th anniversary of the attacks on America, and I cannot — for the life of me — figure out how the U. S. State Department and the military contingents assigned to protect our overseas embassies and consulates did not heighten alerts and strengthen defenses.
All that aside, we have four Americans dead for no good reason at all. These men served their country and tried to help a beleaguered, Third World nation attempt to right itself and assume responsibilities in the family of nations.
On 9/11, as has been my habit, I defer from writing. Instead, I put that time aside for sober reflection on the events of that day and say prayers for the survivors. The deaths of the thousands on that day include people of virtually every ethnicity, religion, and origin known on this planet. Peacefully going to work was their doom.
Television stations aired the images of the planes hitting those buildings and the smoking hole near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for a little less than two weeks. We saw the threat and felt the warning for a time, but then we seemed to put all that aside and go on as if nothing happened.
The echoes of The Alamo and Pearl Harbor faded as fast as a summer-achieved tan in the fall. In the wake of the events of THIS 9/11, what did we hear from our government??? An apology for possibly offending Muslims. Oh, please. Give me air.
These same folks at the helm of our government were decrying Christians faced with a Crucifix suspended in jar full of urine. Where was the defense of Christians? Absent, as usual.
So what if someone doesn’t believe in God? How does a blessing from God hurt someone? If they are right and there is no God, the blessing is benign. If they are wrong and The Deity DOES exist, they are blessed in spite of themselves.
I have had it up to my ears with apologies to dissident or splinter groups. If same sex marriages were the norm, the human race would have become extinct at its beginning. These folks don’t reproduce. They recruit.
Schools are for learning. Schools are for inspiration. Schools are not for indoctrination. Books on why a child has “two mommies” should be read in a home of that description, not to a classroom full of impressionable children.
What was once unacceptable has moved beyond the tolerated to near normalcy at a rate that should scare the pants off of any thinking person. That, readers, is the crux of it. People who are ripe for these ridiculous positions of “political correctness” don’t think. Listen to their words. You seldom hear the statement, “I know.” Instead, you hear, “ I feel.”
Well feelings are fine if you hand is on a hot stove, but useless if you are expected to logically assess a dangerous situation and need to base your decision on facts!
Our Secretary of State has heralded herself a champion of women’s interests for as long as I can remember her in a public life. Yet, the most heinous crimes against women are routinely done by Muslims.
Forced circumcision, birkas, small girls forced back into a burning school because they lacked proper headdress, relegation to property status, and the list goes on….
Where is Clinton’s outrage at the treatment of Muslim women? Sadly, the appointment of three recent women Secretaries of State might have fueled an even higher fervor to hate Americans, given the fact that Muslims have no respect for women whatsoever. What we consider accomplishment, our enemies in the Muslim world see as an insult and an abomination.
At what point will the American people see this threat for what it is? Where are the peaceful, hard-working Muslim-Americans in all this? Why don’t we hear their voices? I fear that they are so severely threatened by the Islamic fanatics in their mosques that they fear for their own lives.
The time has come for us to stand for our values. You don’t negotiate with an enemy that rapes women as sport and beheads Western journalists and airs the video like a soccer game.
Among the more than a thousand mosques in the United States may dwell the next wave of terrorists and yet leadership are want to call the threat for what it is. Never before the last three-and-a-half years did I fear for my country. Undoubtedly, I am not alone in this, yet the press ignores the situation and puts it under the rug.
When I was young, news reports were just that: news reports. Reporters and news agencies put forth the facts. The public stayed informed. Today, other than one particular cable network, televised news is rife with a push to keep one party in power and sully the reputations and opinions of anyone who dares to disagree with the current administration’s position.
If this keeps up, we are lost. After about forty years of university faculties full of left-leaning professors, we can’t expect much, can we?
I’m waiting for the press conference with hard questions requiring informed answers backed with facts. I’m tired of the “Alice in Wonderland” attitude displayed by the majority of the press corps entrusted with the responsibility of bringing actual news to Americans.
These attacks Tuesday 9/11 are likely just the beginning of what we can expect here on our own soil. I keep remembering the way that our president kept bragging that he took out Osama Bin Laden. Think that might have offended the Muslim fanatics both here and overseas. Duh!
The blame placed on a film made in California is nonsensical. It’s time to stand for freedom — of speech and of action. America has always come to the defense of those who struggle against dictators. Today, while Syria is slaughtering its own people (and Clinton hailed Assad as a reformer, by the way) and Iran threatens to wipe Israel off the map, what are we doing?
We’re going through the United Nations (better spelled Untied Nations) and talking the game that needs to have force behind it. My husband is a Purdue economy grad, but he had ROTC as a student. A military history professors told his class that if they remembered nothing else, there is a mantra among soldiers. “There is not such thing as a partial victory.” The enemy we face may not have a uniform, but it has an ideology bent on destroying us.
Our military must be so strong that nobody would dare provoke America into a confrontation. The only thing that the terrorists understand is force — unrelenting, overpowering force — in a word, defeat.
Anger management? Oh, give me oxygen. We don’t need to manage our anger. We need to fuel it. You don’t negotiate with murderers. You take them out and make it clear that if they threaten you, they lose.
Unless and until we face the worldwide threat from Muslim fanatics for what it is, we remain vulnerable. And, as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said (sic), “Weakness is provocative.”
War on women? Not here America. War on America worldwide? Amen. Oh, dear, I referenced God. Think about it.