[BlackElk]

September 11 has a long and mostly interesting and laudable history (excepting the obvious evils of 2001). For one thing, it is the date of either the successful defense of Vienna by Jan Sobiewski against the Muslim invaders or more likely the naval battle of Lepanto against the Muslims (the end of Muslim naval power). I forget which, but whichever battle it was, the anniversary is a probable motive for the Islamofascisti to choose 9/11 to attack us.

Other 9/11 highlights include: 1973 when Chilean Communist President Salvador Allende committed suicide by firing his machine gun at Augusto Pinochet's forces who restored Chile's traditional non-communist civilization during a brief interlude of military restoration of order. 1970 (?) when Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia (a footstool for Marxist-Leninists) was overthrown by Lon Nol. There are others as well. These two were particularly important strategic victories although Cambodia eventually fell into the communist swamp again. As the late Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick so eloquently explained in full book-length treatment, authoritarianism is preferable to totalitarianism because totalitarianism tends to be a permanent enslavement as authoritarianism does not. Freedom is, of course, far preferable to authoritarianism and still farther preferable to totalitarianism.

[george76]

The choice of 9-11 has always interested me.

911 days after our 9-11 they struck again. I wonder what math number and location they will use next.

7 October 2007 will be the 436th anniversary of the Naval Battle of Lepanto ...I believe.

I forgot that the Vienna date was September 11th.