Posted on 09/10/2002 7:45:05 AM PDT by oldvike
John Leo has an excellent point in his column, "Rage Is Not the Rage." He's exactly right. There just isn't enough anger and rage out there associated with the anniversary of September 11th, and there is way too much memorializing and wallowing yes wallowing in victimhood.
I discussed this in length in my third hour monologue on Monday, which started when a caller asked if the EIB Network will follow the lead of many in the rest of the media and run commercial free on September 11th. We will not. The EIB Network will not do what everybody else is doing and will not participate in the over-memorializing of September 11th. You can hear it all in the audio link below as well as my response to another caller in which I reveal my reasons for rejecting an interview request from NBC on 9/11.
Following that third hour monologue, somebody sent me an e-mail with a great line: Too many people in this country have season tickets to Oprah. This guy could not be more right. We are just so overly sensitive these days that we don't even have the ability to be righteously angry at what's happened to us. Instead, we're struggling to understand those who did it. Well, that's easy to understand! I stopped giving a rat's rear end about understanding them when they started killing us. When they start killing us, then that's war.
I don't understand why there's not more anger about this. I think we're patting ourselves on the back too much, I think there are too many American flags being waved around, I think there are too many ceremonies going on, and it's all too morbid. That attack on 9/11 should make us angry, and spur us on to action, not make us sad and introspective.
NEVER forget!
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If only Rush would have had the nerve to have said what you just said! You are so profoundly correct that you statement above is what should be being memorialized on every future anniversary.
"These people" would include EnvironMentalists groups in my book.
Isn't there a Quote of the Week thread anymore on FR?
This one of your qualifies for Quote of the Decade, or even better in my book. Bravo! Encore!!!
Yes! Oprah's & Hitlery's "Gelded Age!"
Rush is so out of touch with reality.
We have plenty of anger and it will start to really show after this week.
However, I do not want my anger to result in the death of a single American Service man and woman to stroke my ego. I saw good men die when Carter ordered that ill fated fake helicopter attack on Iran after our embassy had been seized. I saw good men die when abandoned in Somali thanks to the Clintoon and that POS posing as Sec Def.. We lost a lot of good men in Nam to satisfy a lot of arm chair generals and admirals sitting back in the Beltway or east coast drink their cognac and smoking their Cuba cigars complaining about how bad our brave men in Nam were.
I want to see every Islamakazi and Islamakazi leader killed. I want to see every Opecker Prince who has financed terrorism lose every cent he has in his Swiss accounts to pay for the terrorism that he financed. Then, I want to see each of these Opecker Princes who have financed terrorism be tried for war crimes and be sentenced to die like the Nazi and Imperial Japanese thug leaders did after WWII.
However, I'm willing to let the team that Rummy has put together decide where and when and how.
Having said the above, I will proudly go to my church's 9/11 service tomorrow night at 7 pm, get on my knees and pray for this country and our leaders. Then, I will sing great songs with my Christian Brothers and Sisters. We will recite the Pledge of Alligiance with God probably two times.
If Rush or someother drop the bomb yesterday bozo thinks that I'm not angry, they don't understand the anger that 70% of us have.
This below is what drives my anger:
Unless we mobilize to a much greater degree, to face the additional threat posed by the surrounding belligerent nations and their reaction when we "go in", and inparticular to counter potetnial threats by Red China (the real player here IMHO) N. Korea etc. in other parts of the world who we will be presenting with a golden opportunity ... we're not being serious either about Iraq or our war on "terrorism" which is being abetted by many, many more ... including many within this nation.
I believe more and more people are sensing these realities ... and it is serious business.
We must never forget and we must focus that anger and drive on effectively fighting, defeating and ridding the world of these enemies.
You'll have to do better in arguing against attacking Iraq than this. Just because Israel has not bombed Irag in 20 years doen't mean Sadam isn't working on a nuke.
I sat in a movie theater watching "Schindler's List," asked myself, "Why didn't the Jews fight back?"
Now I know why.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself, "Why weren't we prepared?"
Now I know why.
Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people.
On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.
On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want us to forget the carnage. They say we must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the motivation of the perpetrators. Major television stations have announced they will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.
I will not be manipulated.
I will not pretend to understand.
I will not forget.
I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of the press to kick our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.
I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President Bush's address to the nation with the snide remark, "No matter how you feel about him, he is still our president."
I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings questioned President Bush's motives for not returning immediately to Washington, DC and commented, "We're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."
And I will not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't informed of every little detail of this war, they aren't "likely -- nor should they be expected -- to show deference."
I will not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the United States of America.
I will not forget the Clinton administration equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and modem communications.
I will not be appeased with pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected by the previous administration.
I will not be comforted by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the silly "Have your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.
I will not be influenced by so called,"antiwar demonstrators" who exploit the right of expression to chant anti-American obscenities.
I will not forget the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines.
I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.
I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told Labor Party conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it?
There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must!"
I will force myself to:
-hear the weeping
-feel the helplessness
-imagine the terror
-sense the panic
-smell the burning flesh
- experience the loss
- remember the hatred.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Where did they find the courage?"
Now I know.
We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.
-- Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.) Not as lean, Not as mean, But still a Marine.
"DO NOT FORGET"
Keep this going until every living American has read it and memorized it so we don't ever forget!
Just received this via email from my wonderful brother who is a retired Master Chief who served two terms in Viet Nam. He asks that this be forwarded on to others. What better way but through Free Republic.
Two Bits
I hate war as much as the next guy (unless his name is Clinton), but these creeps started this thing.
Now, let's not waste any more time FINISHING it -- before they come at us again -- this time much worse.
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