[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Now that we're more than two weeks and a half weeks past the attacks (a virtual lifetime in the eyes of American media), it's become increasingly evident in TV interviews and radio call-ins that a significant portion of our population have literally stifled any self-survival instinct in favor of not offending anyone. It's absolutely mindboggling. There are now entire generations of Americans, young though they may be, who know nothing other than a fuzzy relativist worldview where nothing's really better than anything else. They and their adult counterparts (whom tragically have infested the very media that shape public opinion) can only be a liability in what is shaping up to be a cut-throat future.

And as the reality of an obliterated national icon and financial hub fades into "America United" or "America's New War" or whatever braindead network of your choice has named this week in time, we lose sight of the bottom line. This situation will very possibly become, whether the majority wants it or not, a war between Islam and the West. Correction: the guys of 9/11 have made this a war between Islam and the West. And the West, being so hamstrung by PC, can't find the stones to call it what it is. Please, West...find the stones, and join the battle that is on your front lawn.

[Jerez]

I have been struck, too, by people admitting that their instinct for self-preservation has been stifled by PC. I've actually heard callers (NPR) saying that they are now ashamed to realize that they were looking at Arabs at the airport with greater suspicion -- but they're OK now, their PC override is back on! Frightening for the long run. What has happened is that, with the attack, the natural instincts of people came to the forefront. Now, after 2 weeks, the media's constant liberal PC drone has resumed its soporific effect. Back to sleep, America!