To save America, we need another 9/11

[malachi]

Please feel free to contact the jack ass that wrote this pile of steaming shite. I've left hima vmail, but I don't expect a reply.

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/9050212.html


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ONE MONTH from The Anniversary, I'm thinking another 9/11 would help America.
What kind of a sick bastard would write such a thing?

A bastard so sick of how splintered we are politically - thanks mainly to our ineptitude in Iraq - that we have forgotten who the enemy is.

It is not Bush and it is not Hillary and it is not Daily Kos or Bill O'Reilly or Giuliani or Barack. It is global terrorists who use Islam to justify their hideous sins, including blowing up women and children.

Iraq has fractured the U.S. into jigsaw pieces of competing interests that encourage our enemies. We are deeply divided and division is weakness.

Most Americans today believe Iraq was a mistake. Why?

Not because Americans are "anti-war."

Americans have turned their backs because the war has dragged on too long and we don't have the patience for a long slog. We've been in Iraq for four years, but to some it seems like a century. In contrast, Britain just pulled its soldiers out of Northern Ireland where they had been, often being shot at, almost 40 years.

That's not the American way.

In Iraq, we don't believe our military is being beaten on the battleground. It's more that there is no formal "battleground." There is the drip of daily casualties and victory is not around the corner. Americans are impatient. We like fast food and fast war.

Americans loved the 1991 Gulf War. It raged for just 100 hours when George H.W. Bush ended it with a declaration of victory. He sent a half-million troops into harm's way and we suffered fewer than 300 deaths.

America likes wars shorter than the World Series.

Bush I did everything right, Bush II did everything wrong - but he did it with the backing of Congress.

Because the war has been a botch so far, Democrats and Republicans are attacking one another, when they aren't attacking themselves. The dialog of discord echoes across America.

Turn back to 9/11.

Remember the community of outrage and national resolve? America had not been so united since the first Day of Infamy - 12/7/41.

We knew who the enemy was then.

We knew who the enemy was shortly after 9/11.

Because we have mislaid 9/11, we have endless sideshow squabbles about whether the surge is working, if we are "safer" now, whether the FBI should listen in on foreign phone calls, whether cops should detain odd-acting "flying imams," whether those plotting alleged attacks on Fort Dix or Kennedy airport are serious threats or amateur bumblers. We bicker over the trees while the forest is ablaze.

America's fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.

What would sew us back together?

Another 9/11 attack.

The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago's Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich environment for al Qaeda.

Is there any doubt they are planning to hit us again?

If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America's righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail.

The unity brought by such an attack sadly won't last forever.

The first 9/11 proved that. *

[Richard D]

1. unbefuckingleivable.

[Strawman]

2. Since he is so willing to sacrifice American lives for feel good "unity"

Maybe he should go offer himself as a hostage to the Taliban. Maybe if they chop his head off we'll all come together.

What an outrageous column. I can't believe an editor would let it be printed in his or her paper.

[WI_DEM]

3. So should it be on 9/11 so that the media can always talk about 9/11 or should it be another date?

like 10/6 Somehow 10/6 doesn't have the ring of "9/11" But, needless to say, I hope there is no new 9/11.

[IndianaJones]

4. I'm thinking more along the lines of an influenza pandemic. nt.

[Grandrose]

5. I am sure Homeland Security has this jerk?

He must be at Quantanimo...right!!!:crazy:

[JHB]

6. This is an example of someone who is just not paying attention.

"It is not Bush and it is not Hillary and it is not Daily Kos or Bill O'Reilly or Giuliani or Barack."
"Americans have turned their backs because the war has dragged on too long and we don't have the patience for a long slog."

No, it IS Bush and the self-styled "cabal" he surrounded himself with, and their dishonesty and their relentless, ruthless powergrabbing. It's about them using all that unity to advance a separate agenda rather than decisively dealing with the actual culprits. It's about their using the powers of their offices not for the benefit of the nation, but to pay back their top supporters.

AND it's Hillary and her fellow congressional Dems who have shamelessly continued some thirty years of capitulation to Republican malfeasance and abuse of power, and a lot of people ar just plain sick of it.

There are real, and very serious reasons for the division, Stuwey. If you don't know that, you just haven't been paying attention. Why don't you go park yourself in front of more "American Idol" crapola and leave the column to someone who actually pays attention to current affairs and has some understanding WHY things have turned out the way they have.

Sheesh!

_I_ want that unity back too. I want that support we had the world over. But another attack won't get it again. The only thing that will is holding those who pissed it away responsible for their actions.

Stop "hoping" for another attack, Stuwey, direct your frustration where it belongs, and call for impeaching Bush and Cheney.