How could we ever forget with all the politicizing?
Posted by: Noah (the other one) at September 11, 2006 09:35 PM
I just wanted to add that the CNN online re-broadcast of its 2001 coverage is a very good way not to "dare ever forget" -- as if we could. It's quite impressive and less traumatic that I suspected. http://www.cnn.com/pipeline/landing/index.sept11.html
Posted by: Cynthia Samuels at September 11, 2006 01:54 PM
I'd like to echo Dan and DS's sentiment. At least for a day, we should put aside politics and rhetoric and reach out to one another. Right on dude. Right on.
Posted by: Robot.Economist at September 11, 2006 01:40 PM
It's not just about "not forgetting". We should try and treat each other here in the U.S. like we are neighbors, and not like we are competitors. Be courteous to each other...look to help each other instead of helping ourselves. Instead of racing someone to the end of the merge lane, slow down and let them through. Instead of jumping in the grocery line before someone else, let them go ahead. If you see an elderly person having trouble with something, stop for a second and see if you can help them.
Remember, it was our neighbors...every day people...who died in those attacks. We need to pull together as a community to remember, learn, and change.
Posted by: DS at September 11, 2006 01:07 PM
Today, of all days, lets just stop with separations between us of all kinds- religous, political, and physical - and just remember the souls who died.
Posted by: Dan at September 11, 2006 10:51 AM
New York is my birth place and I have always been proud of it, even I have hated the lack of support of liberals for war on terror in Iraq. Kindless liberals continue to criticize Bush's agenda for war on terror, just for their own hatred of the conservatives. I miss those days during the early days of Operation Enduring Freedom which both liberals and conservatives united as Americans. It is a sad fact that our country is rarely united unless the soil or interests are attacked, such as the attack on Pearl Harbour, war against Spain, and recently the 911. It is purely Clinton's failure for not doing enough during his days as president to hunt down Osama Bin Laden.
Posted by: pedestrian at September 11, 2006 10:36 AM
We won't forget the attacks, but we've definitely become confused about who and what the enemy is.
As Nathan Freier said in the Fall 2006 edition of Parameters: "Absent a real ends-focused, ways- and means-rationalized, and risk-informed grand design, the United States is vulnerable to slow surrender to strategic exhaustion and voluntary retreat from the essential activism necessary to the security of its position in perpetuity."
For once, I would like to see a U.S. government strategy document that ism't a rough outline packed with platitudes. This country needs to know the way forward and no one (Democrat or Republican) has been able to successfully articulate it.
America is strong, but strength will amount to little without vision to guide it.
Posted by: Robot.Economist at September 11, 2006 09:33 AM
I pray we never do forget. My fear is that we have grown soft. Political Correctness has caused us to avoid the truth for fear of offending our enemy.
I pray we can remain united and strong to defeat Islamic Extremism, Facism, Terrorism, wherever it is. One Nation, Under God, Indivisible!
How could we ever forget with all the politicizing?
Posted by: Noah (the other one) at September 11, 2006 09:35 PM