Peggy Noonan: The Other Shoe

Opinion Journal ^ | 06/07/2002 | Peggy Noonan

[Pokey78]

Obsessing over Sept. 11 distracts us from preventing the next attack.

We have come to quite a pass. The nation continues on high alert as our teenagers gulp antidepressants and Osama's spokesman tells us to fasten our seatbelt. The attorney general asks if his agents could please be allowed to surf the Internet; we debate that, and whether or not it would be insensitive to fingerprint young Mideastern males trying to enter America. Palestinian terrorists kill another 17 people in another suicide bombing on another Israeli road, and Israel hits back, with Yasser Arafat under siege for a few hours.

[Kobyashi1942]

Are you aware that one Freeper, Chris in NJ, lost his father on that flight, and told FR that he listened to the cockpit tapes?.He assured all that a fight did take place for control of the plane, but it doesn't sound as good as you spinning the yarn that maybe, sorta, like...the plane was shot down... You should learn to think before you open your mouth, you bright spark you...

If you go back and view my posts you'll see that I don't dispute that the passengers fought to take over the plane. Brave men on that plane, no doubt and their attempt to take back the plane make myself proud to be an American. What you must realize though is that correlation is not causation.

The evidence that I saw and heard on that day, aw well as my sources, indicate that the plane was brought down by the USAF. What is wrong with holding that opinion?

[Lancey Howard]

I watched--we all watched--as an elderly couple, a man and woman in their 70s or 80s, were ordered out of line to be searched. They were old, frail, embarrassed

Has to be done.
You see, if these old people were not searched but some frowning Islamist with a one-way ticket was searched, the Democrats and their ACLU would sue everybody in sight.
So it has to be done.
Congratulations, liberals.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Democrats and the ACLU have been vehemently against racial and ethnic profiling for years.

Perhaps this the should be presented as 'criminal' profiling. The enforcement agencies need to frame the issue differently. They need to get the concept that 'criminal' profiling is for the 'protection' of society.

That the various law agencies are pursuing criminals that are within the parameters of the witness's accounts. That the searched, the questioned, the restrained are within the particular 'criminal' profile for that specific crime.

[Judith Anne]

CAIR is suing a bunch of the airlines as we speak for profiling arabs.

[AUsome Joy]

We are investigating the systems failure of Sept. 11, and while we investigate it we are contributing to the next systems failure.

This along with the Drudgereport about poison gas in the subways really alarms me. My daughter survived the World Trade Center but still has to ride the subways. Political correctness with its lack of intelligence and common sense is truly frightening.

When he was a little boy at the start of World War II, Mr. Mineta and his Japanese-American family were sent to an interment camp.
If he can't put that behind him and understand what the situation is today, he should be removed from his post.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Me Too, LT! I wish I had posted it...Thanks Pokey! You don't know it, but you're a Freeper BRICK. People, we are at WAR. Get to know people in your neighborhoods...Self Reliance is not enough...be ready to step in and LEAD in an emergency...FREEPERS DON'T RUN...They carry the weak to safety NYPD NYFD STYLE!!! Gotta Problem? FREEP IT TILL IT GIVES.