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Why We Must Fight Terror — Why We Must Win

Posted By: 'Okie' | 11:50 am — 7/31/2005 | 1 Comment See comments below:

[h/t: Laer]

Why We Fight — 101/Required reading: Daniel Henninger’s account of the fall of the World Trade Center towers in the 9/12/01 edtition of the Opinion Journal.

I saw the airliner at the instant it hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. A little later I saw the flames burst out of the south tower when the second airliner hit it. I saw people fall from the top of the World Trade Center. I saw the south tower fall down. A little later, I saw the north tower fall down. I have, in the past several hours, looked into lower Manhattan, and each time, where the World Trade Center stood, there is absolutely nothing.

I think that in the next few days I am going to wish that I had not seen any of this. There is no benefit in being able to watch two 108-story office buildings fall to the ground after two airliners have been forced to fly into them. It all seems very compelling now, and when you are in this business and you are on the scene, it is your job to provide an account. So this is just such an account, because there is something about us that demands that we provide this detail for the record.

Read it today — bookmark it — read it often . . .

We Cannot Afford To Forget! (db)

[Related Topic:]

Dueler88 at My Sandmen feels that we need a little more “Momma Bear” in our culture in order to survive against the ongoing threat of the Islamofascists.

Well, in case you haven’t been paying attention, we are now being threatened. I would venture to say that the security of our society has never been in more danger than it is this very second, and it’s not getting any better anytime soon.

Meanwhile, we remain in the thought patterns and values systems that have molded our society for the last 40 years: philosophy, introspection, aesthetics, selfishness and emotion. The values system that empowered us to defeat fascism in 60 years ago seems very very far away. Perhaps it doesn’t even seem relevant anymore.

This Okie agrees! (db)

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  • http://mysandmen.blogspot.com/ Mr.Atos

    I was up that morning early on the West Coast. I swallowed my first sip of 5am coffee watching Bloomberg as it cut into a special report. I watched every second that followed… every menacing development… every tragic image. Then I went to work in a Seattle high rise. At 1pm downtown was evacuated.

    I’ll not forget that morning. It is burned into my psyche like a scar that will never heal.

    Sometimes you get the B’ar. Sometimes the B’ar rips you to shreds and eats what remains. This Ba’r is pissed off and quite hungry.