Posted on 08/14/2021 10:50:08 AM PDT by Rummyfan
A month from now, America will be marking the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted here, because it's too sad: we've lost the war, as the present recreation of the Saigon embassy evacuation in Kabul reminds us, somewhat crudely and obviously. Instead, ahead of that grim date, I thought we'd revisit August 2001 with a few columns of mine from that last summer.
As a scene-setter, we began a week ago with the summer of sharks. Here, from The Sunday Telegraph of August 6th 2001, is a column on Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam - not the Islam that would briefly catch our eye a month later, but a kookier American "variant", as we now say. On the other hand, is Farrakhan really that kooky? Twenty years on, a 42-ton boulder has had to be removed from the University of Wisconsin at Madison because it's racist.
The boulder is two billion years old, and even the 1619 Project doesn't think American racism goes back that far. But in fact the boulder has been described as a "n*****-head" rock - just the once, a century ago. Yet that was sufficient to require the permanent removal of the rock. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but, even if they don't, appending harmful words to them can do even more damage. So now the racist rock is gone, and the healing can begin. Good luck with that.
By contrast, Minister Farrakhan's numerological riffs seem to belong to a more innocent age of American race nuttiness.....
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
This would be the message that Judaism is the "Synagogue of Satan"? Ah, well, let's not get hung up on details. Senator Lieberman is an Orthodox Jew, but that doesn't mean he can't "respect" a guy who thinks Hitler is "a great man" and advises Joe's crowd to try figuring out what they did to bug him. "Everybody talks about what Hitler did to you," Farrakhan pointed out in 1994. "What did you do to Hitler? What made that man so mad at you?"
Farrakhan is truly a certifiable nut job. But what its even more frightening and confounding is that there are people who actually believe what he says.
Twenty years may be significant enough to the ragheads that they might just try to top it on the anniversary. I feel so secure under the present fauxministration. I wouldn’t be shocked to hear our great Joey say in a speech, “We have helped Al Quida to put together the biggest terrorist attack of all time.”
Back to the bad guys blowing up airliners any minute now.
"I have respect for him," said Al Gore's running mate, Joe Lieberman.Al Gore's running mate, and friend of Hannity, Joe Lieberman.
Even McCain wanted Lieberman for a running mate.
Thanks for posting this. Steyn is very insightful. And he’s fun to read. I’m particularly interested in his take on the fall of Afghanistan. I just wish he had said more about that here.
Twenty years...amazing!! I remember that morning exactly..where I was (Cape Cod), what I was doing, the weather (absolutely perfect Fall like day with deep blue skies and a temp about 70 degrees) the exact moment I turned on the TV to catch the stock futures and instead saw a view of the first tower smoking after it was hit. At the time the commentator was speculating it was an accidental hit by an airplane when suddenly another aircraft came into view and hit the second tower.
Later in the day I learned my nephew, just 30 yrs old and employed by Cantor Fitzgerald was trapped on the 102 floor. He was on the phone talking to his mother and telling her he was alright and was by a window. The building collapsed while he was talking. All they recovered were his keys and that was many weeks after then tragedy.
So sad.
Lachrymose Lieberman... he was a regular Hamlet, torturing himself and agonizing... before always voting with the Dems.
I know 2 families whose fathers worked for Ronald Reagan.
One only when RR was Governor of California, the other , both for Gov. then President. Both families would not vote GOP after they learned the GOP refused to let McCain choose Lieberman as running mate.
When you go in their homes they had personal photos of themselves with RR.
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