Letters to the Editor
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Quick hits...
1. Three of the clinical signs of narcissistic delusion are that you feel that you are one of the few people clear-headed enough to see the "real" truth, that the possibility of being wrong never enters your mind, and that those who don't think like you are ignorant dupes. Just chow for thought.
2. Americans tend to wallow in our tragedies because we're an inward-gazing, self-obsessed people. Grow up. 9/11 is fair game to talk about, write about, film about. The world moves on. And in 20 years, people would still scream, "It's too soon!"
3. It's amazing. We don't want to talk about 9/11, yet the reason the Holocaust has remained (justifiably) the grim shadow over the last 100 years of humanity is because groups like the Anti-Defamation League won't let us forget. Maybe there's a lesson in that, as well as in the fact that Nazi groups still exist in spite of it. Hate and fanatics will always exist. We're not special.
4. Unless you lost someone on 93, in the WTC or the Pentagon, you have no business wringing your hands and wailing. Get over it.
5. Maybe Steph and Greengrass have a little sompin' goin' on. That was the most obsequious, fawning treatment of a director I've ever seen. He's a good one, but c'mon. SZ, got a picture of him in your locker or what?
6. Anti-government conspiracy theory wack jobs are still chewing on the JFK assassination 43 years later. The 9/11 conspiracists will still be swapping physics equations and titanium melting point figures in the old folks'home in 2049. I'll simply say what a good friend of mine, who spent years in military intel, told me: it would be IMPOSSIBLE to cover up a covert op as huge as the sabotage of several major NY and DC buildings and the prearranged hijacking or takeover of 4 passenger jets. Hell, these neocon clowns can't even cover up the Valerie Plame leak.
7. And finally, to the poster who implied that the phone calls from flight 93 to loved ones were somehow made by shadowy government agents in an attempt to make us THINK the flight was full of good Americans who were the victims of Muslim terrorists, two words: dandelion break.
Peace, all. This here is what we're fighting for.