Americans Fondly Recall 9/11 As Last Time Nation Could Unite In Bloodlust (the Onion)

[hlthe2b]

(Yes. It is the Onion, but damn do they know how to go to the heart of the matter!)

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[left-of-center2012]

1. Wow !

That's really offensive.

Yes I know it is sarcasm.
But in my humble opinion it's offensive.

[hlthe2b]

2. It is biting commentary and is only so because there is some truth to it. Do you deny that?

The RW seeks someone to blame, a source of vengeance for all the wrongs they feel they have suffered. They found that after 911, rightly or wrongly. And decades of wars followed along with horrendous acts of Islamophobia. Yet that WAS the last time we were united. Sans such a convenient target, they have turned inward, attacking other Americans. And that is why domestic terrorism is our leading threat today. Even Bush* has much as acknowledged that in his speech today.

[left-of-center2012]

3. I voiced my opinion.

I find it offensive.

[Mz Pip]

4. Yeah, me too.

Not funny.

[hlthe2b]

5. Maybe you should tell the Onion.

[ColinC]

6. I sat in my high school classroom that day and the day after listening to my classmates

Over and over say how we need to kill people and start a war, etc etc during a class discussion. The only thing going through my head listening to this besides the overwhelming shock and sadness of the events, was

[Jspur]

11. Sadly I experience the same being in college as a freshman

hearing crazy stuff from kids in the dorm and outside just screaming we need to go to war and kill those bastards. It really was the time in my life as a young 18 year old that I felt really alone since I had more awareness about the world then my current peers.

[Boomerproud]

7. I don't blame the author for their anger.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. Text of the piece ... I'd say it's food for thought

In many ways, this WAS a big component of the 'unity'.

But it certainly was not ONLY this.

WASHINGTON—As they reminisced 20 years later about a devastating and historic national tragedy, Americans reportedly took note Saturday of how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were the last time the country was able to put aside its differences and stand united in a bloody, homicidal thirst for vengeance. “Nowadays, there’s political polarization everywhere you look, but back then, we found a shared sense of purpose and agreed to just kill, kill, kill,” said Cleveland native Lewis Romano, one of the millions of U.S. citizens who waxed nostalgic for the days following 9/11, when Americans from all walks of life coalesced around common demands for widespread death, carnage, and destruction in a faraway place that most of them would never visit. “After those towers fell, it didn’t matter if you were from a blue state or a red state, because we all wanted the same thing—blood—and we wanted it immediately. So we came together, and in a single voice we told the world: We’re gonna drop tens of thousands of bombs on Afghanistan and ask questions later. There wasn’t any hand-wringing about whether we might fuck everything up and make it far, far worse. Republicans and Democrats simply locked arms, pulled the trigger, and let the bodies fall where they may. We were truly one then. It was a beautiful thing.” Asked to point to a map and identify any of the 85 countries to which U.S. counterterrorism operations have since spread, the American populace demurred.

[treestar]

9. I recall seeing a FB page of one of our troops

with friends encouraging him to kill as many "sand n******s" as possible.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

10. We weren't all filled with homicidal rage. I certainly wasn't.

I was filled with sadness, because I understood at THIS place in time and with THIS know-nothing president, our response was going to be far more harmful than constructive.

[hlthe2b]

12. Of course. Have you never heard of the Onion?

I think you missed the point.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

13. Of course I have

I was addressing the grain of truth within the joke.
It’s always a sad day of reflection for me. I’m glad it’s over.

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