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| Lileks: Six Years (The Bleat) |
| 2007-09-11 |
| Six years. It seemed right away like it would be a big war, three to four years – Afghanistan first, of course, then Iraq, then Iran. The idea that it would have stalled and ended up in diffuse oblique arguments about political timetables would have been immensely depressing. There was a model for this sort of thing, a template. Advance. But that requires cultural confidence, a loose agreement on the goals, the rationale, the nature of the enemy and the endgame. We don’t have those things. Imagine telling someone six years ago Iran would be allowed, by default, to make nuclear weapons. They would wonder what the hell we’d done with half a decade, plus change. What part of 25 years of Death to America didn’t we get, exactly? . . . Here’s the 9/11 film I put up last year. And here’s a bigger version in mp4 format. (110MB.) It was done the week of the attack, so if nothing else it's an artifact of the impressions and emotions of the time. Not that they've changed. A 9/11 discussion is going on at buzz.mn., or so I hope; see you there. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Remember the day, yes - but don't be sad. Get ANGRY! GET ANGRY! Get angry again and STAY angry! It's been 6 years. We've become complacent. My bullsh%t threshold has long been exceeded. It's time to hunt these bastards down and subject them to the same experience those poor souls jumping from the upper stories had to endure. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-09-11 18:11 |
| #1 Less we forget the day and those who have gone before us. Remember the evil. Remember those who enable evil. Remember the names of those who want us to forget. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-09-11 09:29 |