We the People
But I am also reminded of a feeling of hope that emerged afterwards, by today’s editorial in the NYT, which begins:
At first, there was only shock, grief and fear. But by the next evening there was something surprising in the air. Do you remember? It was an enormous, heartfelt desire to be changed. People wanted to be enlarged, to be called on to do more for country and community than ordinary life usually requires, to make this senseless horror count for something. It was also a public desire, a wish to be absorbed in some greater good, a reimagining of the possibilities in our national life. There was courage and unity on the streets of the city and all across the country, for we were all witnesses of that turning point.
Well, it took longer than the first evening for me, but yes I do remember. And that’s a feeling I haven’t felt since, but now resolve to feel daily. It’s time to rediscover that feeling about America and ourselves.
In that vein, I don’t begrudge today’s media for it’s overwhelming need to retrospect and introspect on this anniversary. George Will’s column for today closes with the observation,
Today, for reasons having little to do with 9/11 and policy responses to it, the nation is more demoralized than at any time since the late 1970s, when, as now, feelings of impotence, vulnerability and decline were pervasive. Of all the sadness surrounding this anniversary, the most aching is the palpable and futile hope that commemoration can somehow help heal self-inflicted wounds.
Well, maybe not so futile – if we mourn today, it is for what we were before 9-11. Ten years after, during which we seemed intent on exploring being everyone other than ourselves, it’s time to finally reclaim our confidence and our resolve about who we are as a nation and as a people.
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posted September 12, 2011 at 9:18 pm
“The September 11th attack on America, in which devout Muslim
believers carried out the greatest single jihad raid in history, and
Muslims around the world cheered and danced in joy over this great
blow to the infidel, should have awakened America and the West to the
nature of the 1,400 year old warrior religion of Islam. Instead, while
triggering a “war against terrorism,” the 9/11 attack inspired liberal
America to embrace and approve of Islam much more than it had done
before, even as Americans allowed themselves to be placed under
permanent and humiliating security measures out of the liberal
imperative to avoid the slightest hint of discrimination against
Muslims.
These unexpected and devastating outcomes of 9/11 are perhaps the
greatest single illustration of Auster’s First Law, which says that
the more alien or dangerous a nonwhite or non-Western group reveals
itself to be, the more our liberal society approves of it,
accommodates itself to it, and forbids any criticism of it. To speak
the truth about the unchangeable Islamic command to wage eternal war
by violence and stealth against non-Muslims and about Muslims’ 1,400
year long obedience to that command, is to place oneself outside the
respectable mainstream. In America you don’t get put in jail for
speaking the forbidden truth, you just lose your job and career. This
is the reign of fear under which we live.
In sum, the result of 9/11 has not been Western self-defense against
Islam, but the prohibition of Western self-defense against Islam. And
all the official 9/11 commemorations, notwithstanding their patriotic
appearance, will carry that message of American and Western surrender.
And that is why they should be avoided.”
posted September 17, 2011 at 6:13 am
I have to say I am quite disappointed by this post. It seems you just want to sweep the horrors of the last decade under the carpet, so long as the victims are not American.
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