Time for Thorns

Read Janet Daily on  the wave  of anti-Americanism which soon followed 9/11.  Hat tip to Jay Nordlinger for that,  and you might do well to read the speech Jay gave  a year after  the fact.

We can no longer bask in the  assumption we  are safe,  though progressives think we  should be over  9/11 instead of  remembering  it,  much less  memorializing  the horrific event.

Most of us expected a repeat of 9/11,  and  most of us  still do.   Unlike the Left and   the intellectual elite,  we did not blame America for 9/11,   and we have too much common sense to think that love and  happy thoughts will result in understanding and peace.   suffice.

There are  some odd facts  about 9/11,  and some things which still are not discussed,  including a haunting  chalk drawing  done in the l980s.   Did 9/11 reveal  true Americans?

John Podhoretz has an  interesting piece  on the purpose of 9/11.

Hollywood hasn’t been supportive of our troops,  but certain people,  like actor Gary Sinise,  got a wake-up call on 9/11  and did something about that.

Watch  Sen.  Macro Rubio  reflects on  the event.    Cesar Conda gives us  his view from  the White House.   Judge Michael Mukasey has a  different perspective.    IBD wants to know what  the Saudi role  was,  a question still largely unanswered,  which is suddenly pertinent again.

The Anchoress has some  very good links  for you.   America has made  considerable progress  in fighting terrorism,  though I don’t agree that we have lost none of  our civil liberties  in the process.   I concur with Stella  Paul’s views on  how 9/11 gave us His Oneness.

Finish with a feel-good story about  a boat lift  larger than the one at Dunkirk.

I don’t know who wrote Pres.  Bush’s speech for yesterday,  but it was  beautifully written  and well delivered.   Given the length of time it takes for His Oneness to decide anything,  W  is starting to look better  in the rear-view mirror.

This is what the  only American  not on earth at the time saw.   Read about a  rookie fighter pilot  who went willingly on what would have been a suicide mission if thew passengers of Flight 93 hadn’t answered Todd Beamer’s call of “Let’s roll!”     Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was ready to sacrifice her life to save the lives of others.  What are you willing to do?

Read IBD’s editorial on going from Beamer’s exhortation to   “let’s roll over”  mush.

Do take time to watch this  uplifting documentary  film short from the Daily Caller.

I’ll be surfing about to find the best,  most interesting commentary, and will post as I find and digest them.

These are the  most iconic photographs  of that awful day,   and a decade of  9/11 magazine covers  (h/t Jonah Goldberg).   Peggy Noonan says we haven’t gotten over it  and shouldn’t,  which is quite different from the day of service His Oneness has turned the event into.  Read Matthew Vadum’s  take on how  the remembrance has been perverted,  and do click on the link near the end for Pamela Geller’s piece.

You can read AFL-CIO President Richard  Trumpka’s nasty  call for action,  or just Aaron Goldstein’s  post on it.

If you aren’t teaching your children about 9/11,   start!   The educrats are  teaching  them,  but you won’t recognize the event.   Quin Hillyer points us to a pair of sterling columns:  one by Rich Lowry  on real heroes,   another by Charles Krauthammer brusquely dismissing  the popular notion that we over-reacted to the attack.   While you’re at it,  read Hillyer’s  old piece  as well  –  it has held up nicely.

Andy McCarthy has a good post up on the here and now aspect of 9/11,  with good links to other pieces,  and National Review Online has a  remembrance symposium.    Watch Gov.  Chris Christie  sum it up  perfectly with his customary truthful bluntness.

A cartoon which  offers more than words…

His Oneness announced his re-election campaign Monday morning,  well sort of –  here,  see for yourself.   It’s a very strange re-election ad because it doesn’t really tout all the great things His Oneness has achieved during his first term,  like bank—  oh, wait.  There isn’t that much to brag on that voters will swallow….

Just a few hours later AG Eric  Holder announces a military tribunal for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his co-conspirators.   He is blaming Congress for this  sudden 180-degree turn.

Now,  there simply could not possibly be  any connection whatsoever between a re-election campaign and this announcement,  could there?

Here are the remarks His Oneness made at the Pentagon,  and they are as flaccid and uninspiring as Bernie Quigley predicted.   Obama is incapable of understanding America,  much less Americans who are not members of the elite he surrounds himself with.

Lucianne.com had the nerve to post  an image from that fateful day which most media has consigned to the back of the archives,  because we should be obliged to remember.   Do yourself the favor of reading the thread which follows the photo.   These are the Americans His Oneness does not   –  can not — know.

Arnold  Ahlert has an   excellent piece on the two greatest failures of understanding the true nature of evil,  and the fallacy of politically correct warfare.   Remember that progressive thinking doesn’t allow for the existence of tangible evil as a natural force in the world.

Look at the  two shots Rich Terrell chose for this day,  then scroll down for more of his work.

I disagree with Dan Gainor’s  rather  morose take,  because I’m angry rather than sad.    I’m more in line with  the view of Ashraf Ramelah  on the mosque,  and Andy McCarthy on the existence of  moderate Islam,  and with Robert Spencer on   an aspect of reaction to Islamist terrorism.  And  don’t miss this New York Post editorial.

I don’t know how  this second offering from Lucianne.com will strike you,  but watch the video and give thanks to the military,  not the government.   If you have that much straight,  you’ll get the rest right.

Bernie Quigley has a  biting column on the failure of His Oneness and other liberal elites to comprehend 9/11 as We the People do.

He quotes from the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant:  “Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged,  no matter whether right or wrong,  occupies no enviable place in life or history.”

And the last,  most damning line Quigley writes is this:  ” Obama is too young to understand this,  and he will always be too young.”

This will not change.   Obama is still a Golden Child in his head.  That is how he sees himself;  that is his concept of self.   A Golden Child is always correct,  even if others can not see it.   He makes no mistakes,  and his vision is the best one,  which others should simply accept.   Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction is much the same.    The boring details of the myriad public and semi-public duties of a First Lady are tedious for her,  and she finds her annoyance with them increasingly difficult to hide.

We have less than 60 days to begin the process of saving our nation from the particular vision the Obamas share.   Do your part.

Daniel Foster at The Corner leads us to a New York Post offering of a map showing how close 9/11 human remains were found to the proposed mosque site.   Remember that many of these people fell a greater distance to the ground than the mosque site is from the Twin Towers.

PowerLine calls Imam Rauf’s threat of violence if the mosque isn’t built  extortion,  which it is,  not  the concern for our national security he claimed.    I especially like the title of this  piece by Joy Tiz   –  “Don’t Make Me Behead You!”

Rev. Jones should  be past his 15 minutes of fame instead of being treated seriously by His Oneness  and MSM.   No one says a word when the U.S.  Army burns Bibles in Afghanistan.   I suppose Obama will proclaim 9/11 is a day of  national service again,  after having told us during his press conference that Saturday will be a wonderful day to remind ourselves of religious tolerance.

I’ve seen no one but Andy McCarthy point out Obama’s monumental hypocrisy in calling on Jones to stop this useless provocation when he himself was so keen to do the same by releasing the classified prisoner-abuse photos.

In the end we might as well do as we please,   since the Muslim world is eternally enraged by  anything and everything.   As Jeffrey Kuhner  points out,  the secular left has built a Western world without taboos,  and is now bewailing the consequences.

Some  new photographs of 9/11 have been released,  mostly aerial views.