What do you mean “we”, Rudy?
I think we should remind ourselves because I remember every day that on September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven’t been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time on September 20, 2001, to put us on offense against terrorists, and I think we as Republicans should remind people of that.
No I didn’t.
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I really want to leave it at that, pithy and obnoxious. And if you want to, I invite you to leave it at that and quit reading. But it seems like political analysis and debate requires a bit more explication. al Qaeda attacked the World Trace Center in 1993. Then they attacked it again in 2001. That’s an eight year lapse between successful attacks on American soil. I expected when I got around to thinking about it for a moment on 9/11 a duration like that before they manage to do so again. If things went right for the evil doers, perhaps a duration to the major foiled plots of New Years Eve 2000 would have served an equal diliniation of time.
Perhaps you were different. Perhaps you were gripped by fear that on 9/11 that you thought we were in for a bombardment of terrorist strikes, some of them hitting you right in your background splitting that old oak tree you placed a bird feeder on in Greensville, Iowa. But you can’t live with that irrational fear, it is — I suppose — a 9/11 mindset, and we need to adopt a post-9/11 mindset. So destructive is a 9/11 mindset that the much maligned pre-9/11 mindset would be preferable.
In the meantime, the map we and terrorists are looking at is a little bigger than America, let us not forget that, so can it Rudy. Nobody likes you anymore.