Who Would Have Thought It?
If I had told you on September 11, 2001 that eight years later...
- We would have a president who picked as a close White House advisor someone who stated that America got what was coming to us 9-11, that the United States was a terrorist country, and whose minister had said the same.
- That the president who had kept the country safe from further terror attacks for eight years -- who turned Iraq and Afghanistan from our mortal enemies into our nominal allies -- would be reviled as a "war criminal."
- We would elect a president who would say Victory over the terrorists isn't really our objective
- We would have a Congressional leadership that was ready to cede Afghanistan back to the Taliban, because they didn't think the public thought winning was worth it
- The president and his administration would be forbidden to speak of the 'War on Terrorism' because the language was considered politically incorrect. Instead, of a terror attack, the events on 9-11-2001 would be considered merely a "man-caused disaster."
- Our Supreme Court would have concluded that the foreign terrorists who destroyed the WTC were entitled to the same Constitutional Rights as the Americans they butchered
- We would have a president eager to bring terrorists onto American soil, and would have released other terrorists to taxpayer paid vacations in tropical paradises
- The president and his party would be seeking to prosecute intelligence agents who put their lives on the line to protect Americans from another attack.
- We would have members of an entire political party who thought pouring water on a terrorist's nose to save American lives was a horror beyond the pale.
- Hollywood would have released several movies depicting our soldiers and intelligence services as the bad guys (Redacted, Syriana, War Inc, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah) , and the terrorists as innocent victims (Rendition).
- A film-maker who described Islamic terrorists as "equivalent to our Minutemen" would be given a place of honor in the president's box at the DNC convention.
- We would have a president who apologized to Islamic countries for America defending ourselves against terrorists
- We would have a president that stood by and did nothing while the world's leading sponsor of terror developed nuclear weapons
- Our borders would still be wide open, and two successive administrations would have done nothing to secure them.
- An environmental group would use the horrific images of the murder of 2,800 people as part of a hip, edgy ad campaign.
Would you have believed me? Would you have thought all this was insane? Would you have been outraged? Would you have thought it possible on 9-11-2001, that eight years later our national leadership would be once again gutting our military, tying up our intelligence agencies in bureaucratic knots, and retreating to the same failed 'terrorism is a law enforcement matter' approach that led to the attacks on the World Trade Center to begin with?
What you have said if you knew all this would happen after 9-11-2001, besides, 'Good God, what happened to this country? How did we let this happen How did we forget?'
Update: According to the official 9-11-2009 Presidential 9-11 Proclamation, the events of 9-11-2001 weren't terrorist attacks, they were "heinous crimes." Just crimes, you know, like dealing coke, or tax evasion, or facilitating child prostitution.
