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Suffering From A 9/10 Relapse
IBD ^ | September 26, 2007

Posted on 09/26/2007 6:42:52 PM PDT by Kaslin

Security: Newly released books and films show a growing pop-culture bias against U.S. counterterror efforts. It's another sign the pendulum is swinging back to a 9/10 state of mind.


Six years ago we were united as a nation against a common enemy — 300 million Americans resolved to defeat Islamic extremists. Even Hollywood was on board. But as the nightmare that befell our nation dims, we have turned our anger inward.

Now the enemy is portrayed in pop culture as the government, the military and law enforcement — the very forces aligned to protect us from the Islamist enemy. The terrorists are now the victims — of human rights abuses and civil-liberties violations and intolerance.

Racism is now viewed as a bigger threat than Islamofascism.

The new zeitgeist is on display in book stores and theaters. There you'll find a surfeit of new books and movies critical of the war on terror, including:

(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 910; 91001; 910mindset; appeasement; business; daily; dryrotofliberalism; flight93; investors; jihad; neverforget; nevillechamberlain; phoneywar; september10; september102001; september10th; terrorism
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1 posted on 09/26/2007 6:42:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
"Six years ago we were united as a nation"

A destructive myth, IMO.


2 posted on 09/26/2007 6:47:09 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Kaslin

Never thought I’d live to see the day when anyone forgot 9/11. Jesus Wept.


3 posted on 09/26/2007 6:48:04 PM PDT by The Drowning Witch (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:)
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To: Kaslin

How easy we forget.

Wondering if a smoldering hole in the ground where a city used to be, will help them remember?


4 posted on 09/26/2007 6:53:25 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Kaslin
“300 million Americans resolved to defeat Islamic extremists”

Never happened, the leftists were just laying low until the dust settled in NYC, but they were there and just as anti-American as ever. How many minutes did it take after that first plane hit before you heard “Islam is a religion of peace”?

5 posted on 09/26/2007 6:53:45 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Kaslin
""We are dangerously close to slipping into a 9/10 relapse"
"we've stayed vigilant and on the offensive."

What's with this "we" huddah? Patriotic Americans are not close to a 9/10 relapse at all. The left has was not, is not now and never will be vigilant or on the offensive in defense of this country.


6 posted on 09/26/2007 6:58:31 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: dhs12345
Wondering if a smoldering hole in the ground where a city used to be, will help them remember?

I would like to think that it would. However I am more inclined to think that another catastrophic attack would only make the head-in-the-sand apologists more rabid in their denounciation of the United States and our efforts.

7 posted on 09/26/2007 7:02:10 PM PDT by frankiep (Insert clever quote here)
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To: The Drowning Witch

They haven’t forgotten it. They are just stupid enough to believe it was all a huge GWB conspiracy.

You know, pretty soon the GOp is going to have to relenqush its claim to the title of “The Stupid Party” to the Moveon.org DemocRats.


8 posted on 09/26/2007 7:05:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Kaslin
Now the enemy is portrayed in pop culture as the government, the military and law enforcement

No surprise there. It's old hippies running things at the moment.

9 posted on 09/26/2007 7:12:18 PM PDT by JennysCool (Don't taze me, Bro!)
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To: Kaslin
If and when another attack takes place - and I do believe it will - Those who have worked so hard at muddying the waters and substituting falsehoods for truth will have to be dealt with in a very severe manner.

Whether politician, media hack or useful idiot, their cup should be overflowing with just deserts.

Mmmmm. Desert.

10 posted on 09/26/2007 7:39:40 PM PDT by Carbonado
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To: Kaslin
Six years ago we were united as a nation against a common enemy...

Bullcrap!

11 posted on 09/26/2007 7:52:09 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: I see my hands
RE: "A destructive myth"

I agree.

Six years ago we were united as a nation against a common enemy — 300 million Americans resolved to defeat Islamic extremists.

Yes, until about noon Pacific time.

Within hours the best and brightest Bee brains had an editorial blaming us for the attack, we shared the blame along with the attackers who were just trying to get our attection because we refuse to "understand" the rest of the world.

Within days of 9/11 liberals were calling the shows I listen to and emphatically stating that no way would they fly the Flag. The Flag was too Republican, they said.

Almost immediately the debate in the MSM was between those who would wear a Flag pin on the air and those who never wear a U.S. Flag pin on the air. They're professionals, you see.

A few weeks after the attacks the Sacramento Bee publisher was booed off the stage as she repeated the Bee editors' opinion and condemned Bush / Ashcroft for being mean to accused terrorists.

As the invasion of Iraq was being discussed there were MSM types like Ellen Ratner letting it be known that she hoped Bush would fail in Iraq because it would help the Democrats in 2004, I believe that was her main reason. Of course Bush failing would mean many U.S. dead, but hey! ... it's for the Party.

12 posted on 09/26/2007 7:57:02 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: frankiep

Most likely, they will heap all of the blam on GWB, claiming that if we hadn’t invaded “peaceful” Iraq, the terrorists would have left us alone.


13 posted on 09/26/2007 7:59:05 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (The Hunt for FRed November. 11/04/08)
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To: Kaslin
When I came back to High School on 9/13, we got a speech from out Lib US History teacher. This was in NYC and some of the dust from the towers settled in the neighborhood. Many kids from the school knew people that died in the towers.

He said that we shouldn’t hit back and we should try to ‘understand’ why they hate us. Otherwise they would hit us back worse.

We were traumatized and he was spreading this leftist BS 2 days after the attacks practically in the shadows of the WTC. His raving during a time of weakness contributed to me being a Lib for years.

We were never ‘all’ united. Idiots abound.

14 posted on 09/26/2007 8:06:42 PM PDT by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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To: I see my hands
Very destructive myth.

They only love us when we are dying.

15 posted on 09/26/2007 8:10:39 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: dhs12345
Wondering if a smoldering hole in the ground where a city used to be, will help them remember?

My thoughts exactly for the past 5 years or so. I am afraid it will take something like that to make people realize WHAT, not WHO we are dealing with...............

16 posted on 09/26/2007 8:13:39 PM PDT by ALASKA (IT'S NOT ROCKET SURGERY......................Don't just do something, STAND THERE!!!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Ratner, that's who it was. I've been trying to remember for a couple of years.

It was around Christmas and a guest host (some woman) was filling in for Bill O'Reilly on his TV show. Ratner was a guest for a segment.

The host asked Ratner how the Dems could gain any ground against the then popular President Bush. Ratner let slip that "we can always hope things go wrong in Iraq".

The host gave her a pass and Ratner has never been held to account.


17 posted on 09/26/2007 8:32:52 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: varyouga

God love you, varyouga, you have seen the light. Keep up the good work!


18 posted on 09/26/2007 9:42:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ( America: “...the most benign hegemon in history.” —Mark Steyn)
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To: The Drowning Witch

Forgot 9/11? How many people out there don’t even know it happened.It amazes me how many people give a blank stare at the mention of 9/11


19 posted on 09/26/2007 10:14:11 PM PDT by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: All

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.truthusa.com/911.html

http://www.truthusa.com/a


20 posted on 09/27/2007 3:33:56 AM PDT by Cindy
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