Posted on 09/12/2011 5:43:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
We always knew that Krugman couldn’t add or subtract. As an economist, the guy is a terrific writer. And fantasy is his genre.
But the fact that he thinks that we’ve all been secretly ashamed of our reactions to 9/11 for the last ten years should be enough to place him in observation for indulging in too much fantasy.
“What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not,” writes Krugman as his sick 9/11 tribute, “was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.”
Way to unify us Paul.
“Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush,” says Krugman “raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.”
This is not a country that has a great fear of expressing itself. We have way too much self-love for that. If we were secretly ashamed, we’d go on Oprah and proclaim our secret shame to the world, as many liberals like Krugman have done. Or we'd write a book about it.
There were no fake heroes, as Krugman has called Rudy Guiliani and George W. Bush, after 9/11. No one was anxious to cash in on the war that was declared by Osama bin Laden in 1996 against the U.S.
Mistakes? Yes. There were many.
As Winston Churchill observed, wars are made of up surprises and disappointments. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth waging.
Contrast Bush’s reactions at 9/11 to the “Osama bin Laden is still dead” World Tour that Obama engaged in after he watched Seal Team Six dispatch bin Laden on his TV set.
All that was missing in front of Obama was popcorn and a Snuggie. No fake hero there.
Just a faux one.
The outpouring after the cowardly attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon was universal. So was the coalition that went into Afghanistan to kick out Al Qaeda and the Taliban sheltering them.
You had all the elements that liberals love including UN authorization, abuse of women, oppression, blight, gobs of government grant money and Congressional approval to wage war in Afghanistan.
Oh. That’s right. Scratch that last one. Liberals don’t care about Congressional authorization as long as Obama’s doing something to hurt Israel and support jihadists in North Africa.
Certainly the war that we have waged against radical Islam since 9/11, including the war that has still produced the Arab world’s only true democracy in Iraq, has cost America something.
But there has been no democracy in Egypt or Syria or Libya or any of the clients of the so-called Arab Spring. There are exactly two democracies in the Middle East: Israel and Iraq. If thriving democracies aren’t in the best interest of the United States in the Middle East, I don’t know what the hell is. We fought for them in Europe. Why should we do less for the Middle East and Central Asia when it improves our own security?
I will admit that the global war on terror- including the one in Iraq- is responsible for the much of the uncertainty and fear in the financial markets over the last ten years. We lost the peace dividend we gained after winning the Cold War.
And I don’t think we’ll get back to robust financial markets until we’ve gone a much longer way towards crushing Islamists out of existence including stabilizing Iraq.
But to pretend that everything would have been great had we not invaded Afghanistan or Iraq gets you about as far as pretending Al Qaeda didn’t attack the United States.
It’s like pretending the world would have been a much better place if we hadn’t stood up against Stalin and waged the Cold War, which is exactly what some liberals would have had us do.
And to pretend that somehow lobbing cruise missiles at Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli is morally superior to ground operations in Iraq or Afghanistan is a logically flawed proposition.
Say what you will, but both liberals and conservatives- with the Ron Paul exception- have waged war in their own way for their own reasons.
Mr. Krugman would do well to respect those reasons.
We have not created the conditions of subjection and oppression in the Arab world that more than anything else is responsible for the attacks of 9/11, the war in Iraq, the uprisings in the Islamic world. But he is right that we do control our actions and must be responsible for them.
But ashamed of them?
Only one American should be ashamed by his reaction to 9/11. But the insane often feel no shame.
Not news.
;-)
“What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not,” writes Krugman as his sick 9/11 tribute, “was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.”
Yeah, we were equally ashamed after Pearl Harbor. If only it could have been a unifying event. /s
Meanwhile, what happened after 9/11 was I finally read the Koran. Now I know why we must treat them as a greater threat than any we faced in the 20th century.
No, he’s a liberal.
Wait a minute, insane, liberal, THEY MEAN THE SAME THING!!
Krugman sets up a straw man and then tears it down. I am not aware that Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani or George W. Bush ever claimed to be heroes.
“The atrocity should have been a unifying event....”
For awhile it was, against a common enemy, Islamic extremism.
Unification? What was it, a couple of weeks after 9/11, Hillary Clinton squawking “What did he know, ...” on the floor of the Senate?
Paul Krugman, Ferret Face, is VILE and EVIL!! Insanity can’t be cured, but he CHOOSES to be VILE and EVIL!
Neither am I
A post by Opentalk applies here:
Flash back (thread) Rewriting Our History, Changing Our Traditions (MICHELLE OBAMA)
“Changing history means not just telling the same old tall tales of the free market system and the Founders. No, it’s the history according to progressives. And it’s not merely spinning the old facts; it’s taking current events and molding them to fit the progressive agenda and, in this case, completely ignoring history.”
The only thing fake here is Krugman’s Nobel Prize, which is about as legitimate as Obama’s. But, that’s how liberals take charge: they give each other awards and pat each other on the back, then they say, “Look, he’s got a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.”
Exactly!
Two weeks after the initial “unification” the term “Bush’s Fault” was born.
I hate liberals.
Liberals think we “deserved” 9/11. We “asked” for it. Who the hell do we think we are, throwing our military and economic weight around, the world? We should be “passive” and give away our wealth. We should let the Communists run the world, it's a better model than “greedy” capitalism.
BS on “bipartisanship”, “can't we all get along”, “come together”, or “common ground”. Liberals (progressives) are the ENEMY! They need to be DEFEATED, in every legal way possible. They are a cancer on our freedom, morals, and way of life. Not to mention our economy. They want to relegate God to the ash heap of history and replace Him with LGBT.
Side note: One of my grandson's middle school teachers announced to the class, on the first day of school, that she was a lesbian! If this had happened in my 8th grade class, all the kids would have been whispering, “what's a lesbian?”. Are today's “enlightened” kids better off? When I was his age, I got goosebumps holding a girls hand. Now to get that feeling you have to have oral sex. Back then friends were just that, friends. Now we have friends “with benefits”. What the hell is this world coming to? This is the result of liberals (progressives) controlling our schools, the media, the culture, and government.
Conservatives have just sat there and let this happen. YOU are guilty! By Non-action, this has come to pass. NOW is the time to get up off your ass and make a difference. TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK, and then KEEP it.
“Never Again” is one of the refrains of 9/11. Just as Muslim terrorists attacked our nation on 9/11, the left has been attacking it for decades. We need to take our nation back and then adopt the refrain of “Never Again” so that liberals are NEVER in control again, or our nation is DOOMED.
LLS
The Towers should have been rebuilt years ago, bigger, taller, brighter and better. Instead, I'm supposed to feel pride for a fountain? Pride is not what I'm feeling.
It's more like anger over how fearful and weak we've become, anger at the barbarically unConstitutional idiocy we're supposed to submit to during TSA screenings.
I'm angry it's now ten years later and we are no better for it. We still have the Twin Tower void in the NYC skyline. We are AFRAID to call a terrorist a terrorist. In short, we are worse off and less free.
And the hardest part to live with is that we, not the terrorists, did this to us.
Ours is not a war against the islamocrazies, it's an inner war of incompatible ideologies. That's our festering wound that won't heal. The islam nut jobs just picked off the scab and made us bleed a bit.
LLS
Mad dogs weren’t always a protected species.
The was a very good documentary on the History Channel yesterday completely debunking the 9/11 truthers’ coveted beliefs. They are a very nasty, insane little mob.
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