Let's Roll

SteynonLine ^ | September 6, 2026 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

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Yet there was one striking exception to the stultifying conformity of cultural critique, one lonely example of an A-list star confronting a specific 9/11 event head-on and offering his voice in full-throated support of authentic American heroism. Even more impressively, it came from a Canadian - and at a time when Jean Chrétien's ministry was mostly engaged in petty sniping about alleged offenses to its amour propre. When I was, oh, fourteen years old I saw Neil Young with Crosby, Stills, Nash &... plus his compatriot Joni Mitchell and The Band. And to be honest in the intervening decades I can't say I gave Neil Young much thought - and, whenever I've chanced to be tootling around and "After the Gold Rush" or "Heart of Gold" comes on the radio, I'm reminded of why I haven't much missed him. Nevertheless, just a few weeks after September 11th, Neil Young offered a new song that took its inspiration from what I called in the papers that week "the only good news of the day" - the turn of events on Flight 93, the fourth plane, the one supposedly headed for the White House or the Capitol or Camp David that Tuesday morning but whose passengers rose up and overpowered the hijackers. Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field, but its fallen heroes saved hundreds of lives, including perhaps the Vice-President's or multiple congressmen, and denied Osama bin Laden an even more iconic remaking of the Washington skyline and the symbolic (and potentially actual) decapitation of the Great Satan. Todd Beamer's last words, heard by a GTE telephone operator to whom he'd been speaking, were, "Are you ready, guys? Let's roll!"

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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 911; music; neilyoung

[Carry_Okie]

Let's roll... where?

Evil is now infused.
A morass of hysteria
All around and of many forms.

Where to start?
We don't know.
To each his own.

I've got mine.
How about you?

[Theophilus]

• Through the Straits of Hormuz.
• In LEO.
• Over the North & South Poles of the Moon.
• Over hills over dales over every dusty trail.
• Over every tyranny, where ever it may be found.

[Twotone]

Evil does seem to be running amok these days.

[heterosupremacist]

“Evil is now infused.
A morass of hysteria
All around and of many forms.”

Theologians refer to this as diabolical disorientation. It’s a direct result of Satan’s control over his pawns in governments in particular, and societies in general.

[SunkenCiv]

IOW, he’s equating jihadist evil with self-defense.

[Carry_Okie]

IOW, he’s equating jihadist evil with self-defense.

Anything inhibiting Islam's claim to dominance must be offensive.

[Big Red Badger]

RIP TODD BEAMER
and All those of Flt.93

[Rummyfan]

Hear Hear.