Posted on 09/12/2021 6:26:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If you were paying attention before 9/11, you knew who committed that foul act—and if you’re paying attention now, you can accurately predict who will act again.
Hours after the planes flew into the Twin Towers because I paid attention to the world, I knew that radical Islam was behind the attack. Now, slightly more than 20 years after the towers fell, I can tell you that we are once again at terrible risk.
The events of the morning of September 11, 2001, are indelibly etched in my memories. My father died that morning from cancer about 50 minutes before the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He was surrounded by his family. We were not watching television but were attending to each other in our moment of grief. I very distinctly remember thinking, “What else will happen today so that I will be able to remember all of these details?”
The first indication that something “else” was happening was a call from a relative telling us to turn on the television. After watching for a few moments, my aunt asked, “Who could do such a thing?” I immediately replied, “Osama bin Laden.”
At the time I was on active duty in the Navy and I went on leave from my squadron on the morning of September 10, the day before it was to embark on the USS JOHN F KENNEDY (CV-67) for training exercises. I knew it was time for me to get back to work.
I could answer my aunt’s question because we had received numerous intelligence briefs on the rising threat of radical Islamic terrorism. Yep, I said it, because that is who they were then and are now today.
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And it is the communist left, who hates the USA too, who aree bringing in the next perpetuators.
To paraphrase the President of Turkey, there is no radical Islam, there is only Islam.
But which is more dangerous, the communist left or the next terrorist? I really can't tell.
Ok. So Bin Laden brought down the twin towers. Who was behind the collapse of building 7? Asking for a friend...
Hours after ???
I knew right away and had my first argument with a ‘cant-possibly-be-they-are-peaceful” liberal right there at the gym where I was when it was happening...
I was sitting on a machine watching ABC News in the bank of large TVs on the wall near me and reading the CC...
The first plane had just hit and I thought it was a plane then an explosion then I went back to plane just as I saw something out of the corner of my eye and turned my head to watch the 2nd plane cross the screen and hit the 2nd tower...
I was in shock and horror and I got up and went upstairs where the liberal was watching the TVs from the balcony above and he said something about look at that to which I said Yes Moslem terrorists and he told me off and attempted to sing the praises of the po lil misunderstood Jihadis...
I dont remember what I said but I let his stupid head have all the pain and anger I had ....
The hope of the communist left is to include the Moslems in the plans of the communist. The Moslems see the stage of joining the commies for mutual destruction of the West, and then the Moslems will conquer the commies.
I can tell you that we are once again at terrible risk.
***We should follow what I call the “emBASEeee strategee”.
from my home page
I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.
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