Amazingly, the outcome is in doubt.
This entry was posted on 9/11/2006 6:10 AM and is filed under Terror.
Since the terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center only five years ago, some of us have politicized the event, some of us have fashioned an internal conspiracy to explain it. Some of us have judged that we "deserved" it, and some seem to have forgotten. Can we allow the first significant salvo to gore us at home in an ongoing war (that we will eventually recognize as such, either before or after it is too late) to be forgotten--and somehow survive?
David Warren,
here, notes,
"Like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, the event is beginning to fade into history." Warren recounts a 1970 terrorist hijacking of 4 New York-bound airliners over Europe. Leila Khaled, an Arab principle in that hijacking,
"was a Marxist, not an Islamist. One almost pines for those good old days -- for the Marxists were mostly crazy, but they were partially sane. One wonders what we'll be faced with, after the Islamists. If there is an after.... In the last couple of weeks, prominent Islamofascist nutjobs around the world, from Ayman Zawahiri in frontier Pakistan, to President Ahmadinejad in Tehran, to Adam Gadahn, wherever, have been issuing demands to the "tranquilized inhabitants of the human farms" (that would be us), to convert to Islam promptly. Or else. Such generous offers to the infidels are the traditional precursors of major Islamic onslaughts."
Will there be
an after? Amazingly, the outcome is in doubt.
Michelle Malkin,
2996 Project
