Bow down, Andy. That's what they want. That will make everything nice.
Posted on 09/11/2006 10:17:07 AM PDT by lowbridge
Rooney Suggests Fault for Terrorism Lies with American Behavior
In his commentary at the end on Sunday's 60 Minutes, the day before the five year mark since 9/11, Andy Rooney noted that “we're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons,” a policy with which he only grudgingly agreed as he lamented, “we have to do it I guess.” Then, however, he suggested the fault for terrorism lies with American behavior, not the murderous ideology of terrorists who want to destroy Western democratic culture: “But might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us." By that reasoning, during the Cold War should the U.S. have adopted policies meant to appease the Soviets? Rooney delivered his remarks on the season premiere of the program (delayed in the EDT/CDT zones by tennis for nearly a half hour) which gave two of the show's three segments to Katie Couric's piece on World Trade Center first responders who are suffering from the air they inhaled. (Transcript follows)
Rooney's commentary at the end of the September 10 60 Minutes:
“There have been a lot of memorable days in our country's history, but some of them we'd rather forget. September 11th, 2001 is one of those. It isn't a day to celebrate, but it's a day we shouldn't forget, either.
“We need some word other than "holiday" to call some of our memorable days. Pearl Harbor, December 7th 1941 was one of the worst days in our country's history. The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated was a bad day. It was the death of just one man, but JFK was so very American that we all died a little when he died.
“Presidents James Garfield, William McKinley and of course Abraham Lincoln were all assassinated. If you're the President, you must think about them every time you go out in public. I hope we're more careful protecting our President now. The Wall Street stock market crash in 1929 was a different kind of disaster.
“We went into Iraq March 20th, 2003. They won't be closing the banks on March 20th every year to celebrate that. The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster in 1979 might have wiped out our civilization. Most of our disasters have had some natural origin -- floods, too much water. [Over photo of floods] How often have you seen this picture? Hurricanes and tornadoes, too much wind, too much rain. Droughts may be worse, but not so dramatic as hurricanes because they don't happen on just one day.
“The disaster on September 11th wasn't like any of those. It was manmade. Death by design. Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded. Americans are puzzled over why so many people in the world hate us. We seem so nice to ourselves. They do hate us though. We know that and we're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it I guess, but might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.”
Bow down, Andy. That's what they want. That will make everything nice.
I would expect two pregnant teenage mothers at the laundromat to say something like that...OK, and Andy Rooney.
Andy must be right. It's bush's fault. Geez!
"Andy Rooney is a senile liberal fart."
Why insult farts?
In the 1930's the BBC BANNED Churchill from they radio broadcasts because of his "anti-German warnings".
The leading newspapers in France said that the only threat to world peace was the "war mongering" by Churchill and like-minded right wingers.
LIBERALS NEVER LEARN.
I saw this while waiting for the 9-11 documentary to begin (it was a half-hour late due to tennis).
Andy really should stay clear of politics. It's obvious he knows nothing about it.
He should save his observations for product labels, wedding announcements and other subjects where he can be a cute old curmudgeon. Every time he opens his mouth about anything even remotely political, he just reveals how incredibly ignorant he actually is.
"The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster in 1979 might have wiped out our civilization."
His ignorance is as vast as the empty space between his ears.
There might be something good to be said about assisted suicide, after all...
On September 11th, we were attacked by the Taliban. Even the liberals grudgingly agree, when pressed, that our presence in Afghanistan is justified. But the Taliban didn't attack us because we were interfering with them. We simply weren't. They committed atrocity after atrocity, and we hardly said a word.
If Serbia had attacked us, the Liberal Prime Directive of non-interference might have made some sense. Some contrition and humility might have been in order (as we revoked their sovereignty, levelled their cities, and placed them under military occupation). If it had been Somalians or Iraqi Ba'athists, Rooney might have a shadow of a point. But the only reason we ever gave the Taliban to hate us is...well, nothing, really.
The only lesson to be learned from our pre-9/11 policy is to interfere early and heavily, so as to neutralize potential threats. We didn't do that with the Taliban, and we paid the price.
"NYTimes Discovery channel had a special on the Hitler's Secret War on America. The show had liberals back in that day dragging their feet. The liberals own channel showed this. They do not make any sense."
One of the incredible, and sad, realities about liberals is that they do NOT learn from their mistakes. (Example: Jimmy Carter...the Neville Chamerlain of our age).
Although to his credit, Chamberlain did admit that he had been wrong before he died.
4 Words: Senile, old, atheist, bastard.
Andy is a loonie old goat.
FMCDH(BITS)
Submit our country to Islam once and for all.
Rooney must have alot of cheese eating surrender monkey in his DNA.
Well, I guess if we all just converted to Islam
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Which sect? Sunni or Shia?
Either way, the other sect will still hate us!
We just can't get a break!
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