Letters to the Editor
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And here's another thing
that no one can say: the attacks on 9/11 were not only prearranged by our profile and actions in world affairs, were not only a very good example of what we generally mean by "chickens coming home to roost," they were also militarily brilliant with few comparisons in history. Both of these facts will surely be not questions to future historians but the obvious foundation for questions. Such as, of ShawnWM and his ilk: why do they hate America so much? Why do they want so passionately to destroy America with willful blind reckless mayhem? How did this great civilization allow itself to be tied down by so many lilliputian pettifogs? How did this fifth column of freedom hating, venom spewing sabotuers gain such open influence on our national discourse?
BTW, it doesn't matter whether we "deserved" the attacks, "provoked" the attacks or innocently allowed circumstances to develop in which the attacks were inevitable, all that matters is that we repel not only any such future attacks but also the ongoing damage of that first masterstroke of warfare that we -- lead by these freedom hating, America loathing, patriotricious blowhards -- continue to inflict on ourselves.
All that matters is that we save ourselves and our way of life, which is actually the way of freedom, equality, courage and the true patriotic grit our forefathers bequeathed us when they stood down the far more terrible, savage and puissant British Empire in bitter war and declared the stark and uncompromising tenets of our national character.
What to me was great in Obama's speech was the "more perfect union" lick. Because what is unique about our national charter is that it contains within itself, complete, the seed of perfection. It isn't for us to "love" America; it's for us to live up to America's stringent promise and the prodigious examples in learning, experience and sacrifice of its founders. History won't even record that we did or didn't wear flag lapels or put our hands over our hearts or sing the Star Spangled Banner. History will only know that we did or didn't pass our great idea to the next generations in tact.