The Homeland Support Team
We Never Forget.
Posted on 09/11/2005 6:05:00 AM PDT by kellynla
It's now four years since 9-11. Four years since we watched, horrified, as the second airliner hit the World Trade Center tower, since a pal called me to say he was standing out on his balcony watching the Pentagon burn. You can forgive yourself if those images, though etched permanently in your mind, also seem faded into the mists of time. This week end, everyone who loves the freedoms they enjoy should take time to remember 9-11, because we dare not forget.
When we remember 9-11, we need to remember it in the context of who we are, and who our enemy is. George Bush's America, in the last four years, has freed more Muslims from tyranny and oppression than any Muslim nation - including Saladin's empire - ever did. It is not only that we did so by defeating some few of our enemies, but we did so according to our own values and ideals. We fight not to pillage or enslave others, but to end the threats they pose to us. The American ideology is one that places freedom - real freedom, the freedom of self-determination - above all other values. As Thomas Jefferson described these freedoms in the Declaration of Independence, these are our unalienable rights endowed by our creator, not by the whim of any tyranny.
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We can't even have a simple memorial at the WTC for the victims of 9-11, without it turning into some PC-apology for all the sins of the world.
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