Posted on 09/14/2013 9:05:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Back in 2004, when a NYFD chief reminded the 9/11 Commission that it was never in "anyone's consciousness" that the Twin Towers would fall, he underscored a terrible truth. After 9/11, we entered the Age of the Unthinkable. Seared into our collective consciousness is that the Twin Towers could and did fall. So could the U.S. Capitol, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Superdome. Our children know that which we as children never before imagined -- passenger planes may become guided missiles, and skyscrapers may turn into smoking, twisted rubble. This age of Islamic jihad against the West has indeed expanded our consciousness.
Or has it? Did these previously unthinkable acts of violence and mass murder sharpen our thinking, make us vigilant and more protective of our constitutional liberties under attack?
There was a time when I actually thought this was so. Re-reading my first column written after 9/11 today, one dozen 9/11s later, I find that it forecasts a new era of black and white, good and evil -- a new relationship with countries that were "with us or against us." I guess I have always been a lousy prognosticator. Still, that was the message coming out of the Bush White House early on.
My old column continues: "When an honest-to-goodness battle is joined, there can be no more middle ground. We simply have to know where our friends are -- as well as our enemies. Not that their whereabouts are secret. Long before the smoke had thinned to reveal the scope of the carnage in the United States, there was revelry in the Middle East, from Beirut to East Jerusalem, from Cairo to Baghdad."
I was, of course, talking about the Islamic world - the font of jihad to spread sharia to create a global caliphate. That simple catechism I would learn in the months ahead. Two weeks later, however, while I was still working my way through a copy of the Koran and, luckily found, a copy of Ibn Warraq's "Why I Am Not a Muslim," both of which I bought on 9/12/01, it was clear the mood in Washington was already different. The American flags that had instantly spread, flew and bristled in those early days were still everywhere, but "with us or against us" was gone. What was taking shape was something more like: "Who is 'us'?" Whatever that means.
In another column, one written on 9/28/01, I still pondered the need to impose mental order on the recent, unthinkable events, and the need to brace for another.
"As weeks pass, we may yet have to steel ourselves against another kind of blow to the collective brain: this one, only theoretical to date, but no less surreal for being self-inflicted. What Americans may have to come to grips with is the logic-defying notion of fighting terrorism with -- not against -- what might well be called terrorist-friendly nations."
It was happening already -- the blurring of lines that meant the blurring of identity. Our own leaders didn't prize the liberty-based civilization of the West as different from -- and better for liberty lovers than -- the world based in and dictated by Islam. On such denial an "international coalition" would arise. To our leaders, this coalition was always more important than our liberty.
This coalition, I wrote, "identifies the enemy as generic 'terrorists' who commit generic 'terrorism.' By opening the doors of alliance to an array of Arab nations whose embrace of such 'terrorists' ranges from tight, to secret, to (at best) arm's-length, the United States could very well create a broad-based coalition -- but one marked by a grievous moral vacuum that would surely undermine any American-led war effort to save the civilized world from the forces of violence, fear and instability."
A dozen years later, with the Middle East in near-chaos and Europe increasingly under sharia, it seems fair to say it has. Just as FDR pretended 80 years ago that Communism posed no ideological threat to our liberties, so, too, did George W. Bush pretend the same thing about Islam. Similarly, "Islam has nothing to do with Islamic jihad" -- a point of ideological purity enforced inside both the Bush and the Obama administrations.
Which leaves us where? With another grim anniversary behind us, the second president of the post-9/11 era, Barack Obama, has the nation supporting al-Qaida in Syria and contemplating military action on al-Qaida's behalf.
The unthinkable enters our consciousness again. But this time, few seem to notice.
An Al Quaida President. And Al Aqsa NY trying to be built on the ruins, with the help of “americans”.
Strange times indeed.
The “Muslim thing” in this country will only grow worse as time passes. There seems to be no concern on the part of our government that these people represent a dire threat to the country. I have repeatedly pointed out that these people are of low character, are prolific breeders and have no love for the Constitution of this Republic. Others have attempted to point this out as well. A recipe for losing the land that we love is to continue allowing these prolific breeders into this country. Give them three generations and they will have achieved a political plurality and they will be wiping their behinds on the Constitution. Wake up America. Logic and reason are attempting to contact you.
With the exception of conservatives, it seems the entire nation has gone insane and is in the throes of a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Our own government now panders to our muslim jihadi tormentors instead of protecting our own nation.
How else can a reasonable person explain:
- The election and reelection of Barack Obama (a muslim sympathizer by his own words)
- Loading the US federal government with militant muslims in high level positions
- Supplying weapons to our muslim enemies
- Aiding muslim jihadis in the overthrow of less threatening (to us) governments (Libya, Etypt, Syria)
- Accepting Barack Obama's open alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
The high birth rates among Muslims, relative to non-Muslims, is a symptom of rot in our culture. I blame the Protestants for warping the teachings of God on this matter. Until the Catholic Church, which Jesus founded, finds a way to get the minds of Protestants away from contraception we will continue to lose ground to the Muslims.
And if we did arm them on his orders, he be executed for Treason!
(and we HAVE armed them, haven't we.)
I don’t think that the unchecked childbearing of any element of society is the answer to this problem. Were we to encourage rampant childbearing within any group, we would soon be awash in low class, largely unemployable citizens. Never forget that the usable land area of these United States and of the globe itself is finite.
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.
[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]
Sen. Cruz Statement on Egypt (Suspend aid over anti-Muslim Brotherhood ‘coup’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055492/posts
Ted Cruz blames Egyptian violence on Obama’s disregard for foreign aid law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055589/posts
Impeaching that arrogant pos doesn’t solve the problem. He would still be there, because we only have the House and if you think the Rats in the Senate would remove him, then you are dreaming.
I'm all for any government that attacks Muslim Brotherhood.
Most articles about the middle east make reference to this or that leader as a "brutal dictator". But when you live in the middle east and outside the palace walls you have Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda and various and sundry ayatollahs trying to take your head off at the shoulders, you sure as heck had better learn to fight hard and fight to win because the alternative is to see your country subsumed into madness.
Spoken like a true Malthusian.
Everyone in the world could go to Texas and stretch out their arms and not touch anyone.
Do you believe in man-made global warming too?
I suggest you read the works of Julian Simon if my theological arguments don’t impress you.
You mean we don't do this now, and haven't been for close to two generations? You could have fooled me.
The focus is now entirely on the Middle East and what happens there and throughout Europe. We are no longer the dominate nation over there as we have known to be in the past....they all know this...our representatives do as well...which is why so many of our companies and resources are being shipped there or bought out here by foreign governments. The American public knows it as well...we just simply have no direction under this administration except to lay down and let the world go on it’s way without us.....except when it needs our military to fight their wars.
This is not going to change now....
“...encourage...”
Or, a rot in their culture because they start raping girls as soon as they are fertile, giving them no choice in the matter of how many children they want.
Don't we have a similar problem with the ‘immigrants’ coming across our border?
The “contraception is as bad as abortion” crowd doesn’t consider it a problem.
What’s this about? Can’t tell the players without a program.
I think it’s not women, but God they ought to be fearing. Their Allah is a demon; I don’t mean that for a minute as God.
Unemployment is at root a spiritual issue, a result of embracing spiritual fallacies as contrasted to embracing God. It is people-agnostic just as God is not a respecter of persons.
In general... gospel believed is a remedy to all manner of spiritual ills.
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