Posted on 09/11/2003 5:23:44 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
Okay, the day is still young, and God knows what mischief may yet be in store. But I can’t help being amazed at how well we have done in these first two years of what we all knew would be a new world, back on that beautiful morning, a world ago.
Despite the best efforts of news media to portray us as a terrified, angst-ridden nation ready to fall apart with just one more good poke…despite desperate attempts to undo unparalleled victories for political gain…despite hysterical warnings of Islamic rage and retribution, we have gone two years now, knock wood, without a single terrorist attack on US Soil.
Who could have thought such success possible on that first evening? How many of us went to sleep expecting to hear in the morning of new and more terrible attacks on September 12th, or 13th? How is it possible to forget that first Thanksgiving, or Christmas, sure that the symbolism was just too great for our enemies to pass up? And then New Years. Superbowl Sunday. 4th of July. Elevated threat levels. Dire warnings on muffled audiotapes.
Nothing.
This is quagmire? This is a debacle?
Say what you want about George W. Bush and his policies – that is of course your right. But consider this, all you defeatists and self-haters out there: it is barely possible, mathematically, to tie the President’s record for defending this country from a new terrorist horror. You cannot – not even hypothetically – improve upon it. This is a fact that is undeniable and so obvious that only a few will see it.
And at what cost? Did jackbooted storm troopers descend in the night from black helicopters to take away those voicing dissent? Or do the most vile and baseless accusations fly hither and yon, blown ever larger by a terrified and complicit media elite? Did hundreds of thousands of Muslims have their businesses torched, their families terrorized and beaten, the rest hauled off to concentration camps, or are you far safer, both physically and emotionally, as a Muslim in the US then you would be in any middle eastern country – safer and less harassed, without question – than Jews are in France today? Have we given up our liberty and lifestyle for this perfect record, or do we still go to football games and shopping malls and fly, more or less, the way we used to?
What, indeed, has this victory cost us to date, other than the irreplaceable lives of our young men and women, fewer in number still after two earth-changing victories than the number lost in a Beirut barracks during a time of relative peace and hidden yet growing dangers?
Today, if it continues in its bland denunciations of the President and his policies, will be another day where New Yorkers can go back to suing each other over WTC memorials, where the Democrats can cry WMD and Quagmire to their heart’s content, and where life in general returns 1/730th of the way back to normal once again. For those too blind to see the magnitude of this victory, let them whine and seethe all they want. We are still here. We are still here, and far better off, then we were two years ago today, when entire countries were vast terror camps, and children’s cemeteries.
The people that launched that horror, and those that supported it, and those that applauded it – that dwindling number of those of them that are still alive – have, to put it plainly, had their asses handed to them by the country they saw as soft, decadent, gutless and afraid.
And we have been blessed with a President who for all his faults, gaffes, mistakes and compromises has nevertheless maintained the one simple, essential, necessary character trait needed to fight -- and win -- a war against ruthless enemy and the armies of useful idiots that rally to its defense: single-minded determination and an utter disregard for criticism from those who should know better. For all his many manifest failures, it is hard to imagine a politician less effected by the legions of hysterical people determined to put off this fight. In my eyes, he has not tired, he has not faltered, and he has not failed.
Much remains to be done. Many more horrors undoubtedly await. But we have made a decision to fight back, and we are winning on such a scale as to leave future historians shaking their heads in wonder at how so many could be so wrong about something so obvious.
So, it is indeed a Happy Anniversary, tasteless as it sounds. Take a moment, today – take a long moment – and imagine how just how much worse things could have gone.
Thanks, Luis, for posting it.
Two years ago this morning is one of those times that will be forever etched in our hearts and souls. The shock and numbness of what was happening before out eyes, the panic and fear in our hearts, and the dread and uncertainty of what life would be like in the future.
I remember wondering what our lives were going to be like in the 'new world war' that had surely started that fateful morning. What was life going to be like now that a true, full-fledged war had begun?
I remember thinking how each of the prior terrorist attacks were each larger that the one prior. It followed to reason, that the next attack would be larger still and would surely cost tens of thousands, if not millions, of lives. And I remember the hopelessness in feeling that there was little that we could do to stop it.
Well…………….Praise God for George W. Bush, it has been two full years since the last attack, a longer time that could have ever been expected. Our president has proved once again “that the best defense is a good offense” (and he has been about as 'offensive' as he could be LOL).
While it is still very possible, even likely, that a new attack will occur, every day that passes decreases the odds and increases the thanks and gratitude that we owe to our president.
The debacle is the nine stooges who thrive on tearing down America, giving aid and comfort to our enemies.
Awesome celebration of this anniversary, Luis. Thank you!
"I don't find myself in any quandry. I'm a soldier." Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Seven (CJTF-7) , July 23, 2003 - CENTCOM briefing day after the Hussein sons were killed
Sadly, but not surprisingly, Dubya's FR detractors can't agree with this.
That sums it up as regards the war. The liberal/socialists don't want us to think about these facts...neither do their abettors in the press.
But more Americans than they imagine know it...insitinctively and precisely because they have lived it, against all odds, and seen it come about. They know who has led us to that record.
Short of some domestic issue that tarnishes this between now and then, this will be abundantly manifest come election time.
I do not think at this point that even another terror attack would do it...Americans rally around their leaders in times of crisis and war, particularly strong, resolute leaders of character...they would do so now.
Just my thoughts.
I thank God every day that he is in that seat...instead of Gore. I pray God's blessings and guidance on him each day as well.
Fregards.
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