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Five Years

26 Responses to “Five Years”

1. Comment by Justin Slotman —
   September 11, 2006 @ 9:09 pm

   Hear friggin’ hear.

2. Comment by (Not that) Jim —
   September 11, 2006 @ 9:16 pm

   Hey man, you’re my favorite blog, but I still think that sentiment is a little harsh and uncalled for.

   I agree that use of the anniverary for political purposes is rampant and harmful, but I still think it’s appropriate to use this day to feel sympathy for the loved ones of those who died.

3. Comment by Jennifer —
   September 11, 2006 @ 9:29 pm

   I don’t want to turn into one of those annoying people who quote their own blogs on the comment boards of others, but in light of the gravity of this event I’ll make an exception on This Terrible Day:

   How long will America repeatedly pick at the scabs of 9/11 and then express surprise that the scabs we keep picking refuse to heal?

   Enough already.

4. Comment by Walt —
   September 11, 2006 @ 9:30 pm

   Preach it, brother.

5. Comment by matthew hogan —
   September 11, 2006 @ 10:16 pm

   Blog.

6. Comment by Jennifer —
   September 11, 2006 @ 11:45 pm

   No victories to celebrate, so we brag of our defeats.

7. Comment by Francis —
   September 12, 2006 @ 12:34 am

   Jennifer:

   us, and the serbs.

   [not good company.]

8. Comment by Steve —
   September 12, 2006 @ 7:09 am

   What did Eve Yone ever do to the dead?

9. Comment by Jim Henley —
   September 12, 2006 @ 7:33 am

   Crap! Fixed now.

10. Comment by Kip W —
    September 12, 2006 @ 7:36 am

    “But we’re not done using them yet.”

11. Comment by el s —
    September 12, 2006 @ 9:12 am

    finally! a 9/11 moment of silence i can get behind!

12. Comment by cleek —
    September 12, 2006 @ 10:27 am

    i’ll also quote myself, since it so nicely echoes what you said:

    Word to the media re:9/11
    You’re a bunch of fncking ghouls.

13. Comment by The Sanity Inspector —
    September 12, 2006 @ 11:13 am

    The hell with that!

    Progressives and the reality-based community were “war-weary” before the first JDAM fell on Afghanistan that autumn.

    In fact have a combined dose of 9/11 commemoration AND blog self-pimpage, here!

    Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
    – William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

14. Comment by The Sanity Inspector —
    September 12, 2006 @ 11:22 am

    But, yes; we can expect popular fascination with 9/11 to wax and wane over the coming decades. The Civil War, Pearl Harbor, all went through cycles of postwar indifference and renewed interest.

    But, it’s too soon to flush the 9/11 dead down the memory hole. Their significance for future generations is still being molded. Heroes, or little eichmanns? They’ll have my annual, vocal honor paid to them so long as I’m blogging, especially while the wackademic Left is writing the history books. They use 9/11 as yet another shibboleth to claim that America is the enemy of humanity. It’s the duty of every patriot to counter-claim that no, 9/11 shows that America is humanity.

15. Comment by poopy pants —
    September 12, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

    “[The left] use 9/11 as yet another shibboleth to claim that America is the enemy of humanity.”

    Ummm….. when did we do that? Or are you making this shit up, again?

16. Comment by lemuel pitkin —
    September 12, 2006 @ 1:29 pm

    Right on. September 11 was awful. But awful things happen EVERY FUCKING DAY on this miserable planet.

17. Comment by lemuel pitkin —
    September 12, 2006 @ 2:01 pm

    Francis: I was thinking of Kosovo Polje too. Or Hitler accepting France’s surrender in that stupid railcar. Or here in the US with Remember the Alamo! and Remember the Maine! and Little Bighorn — all anyone remembers of the Indian wars is the one battle the Indians won. And Southerners with their Lost Cause. Or Christianity and Islam with their cults of martyrs.

    Something good must have been written about nationalism and the sense of victimhood. Is it universal, or all their cultures that prefer to remember their victories rather than their defeats?

18. Comment by lemuel pitkin —
    September 12, 2006 @ 2:02 pm

    um, “are there cultures…?”

19. Comment by The Sanity Inspector —
    September 12, 2006 @ 7:48 pm

    “[The left] use 9/11 as yet another shibboleth to claim that America is the enemy of humanity.”

    Ummm….. when did we do that? Or are you making this shit up, again?

    Well, I could serve up any number of links, from a number of right-wing sources you know and loathe. But I wouldn’t want to exasperate our gracious host with a Standard Blog Stunt.

20. Trackback by Asymmetrical Information —
    September 13, 2006 @ 9:32 am

    How sick am I?…

    I don’t want to write reminiscences about Ground Zero or 9/11 right now, because then, as Laura says, it makes the story about me rather than about the 3,000 people who died that way. (Jim Henley put it much more pungently.) I have no urge to watch ma…

21. Comment by colin roald —
    September 13, 2006 @ 12:13 pm

    SanityInsp says: Well, I could serve up any number of links, from a number of right-wing sources you know and loathe.

    If you want to persuade people of what the Left has said, it would be more useful to quote original left-wing sources.

    “The Left” of course is an an amorphous, disorganized crowd. Please at least quote representatives that the rest of us have heard of (ie, no random university professors). Al Gore would be fair, or Krugman, or even Michael Moore. What do you have? Chomsky? Anybody else?

22. Comment by Uncle Kvetch —
    September 13, 2006 @ 4:20 pm

    Heroes, or little eichmanns? They’ll have my annual, vocal honor paid to them so long as I’m blogging, especially while the wackademic Left is writing the history books.

    So I see that Ward Churchill and some guy commenting on some blog somewhere (but where, you’re not going to bother saying) = The Left.

    Since you identify yourself on the right, TSI, I can only assume that you agree with Ann Coulter that the 9/11 widows are enjoying their husbands’ deaths.

    That’s disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.

23. Comment by Twill00 —
    September 14, 2006 @ 7:02 am

    Ward Churchill is unfortunately all too typical. Look at Democratic Underground sometime. Then listen to Senator Kennedy.

    Thank God for Hillary and Lieberman, or there’d be no sense in the party at all.

24. Comment by stephen —
    September 14, 2006 @ 8:23 am

    How about some recognition of the Brits killed by the US-backed IRA?
    Hasn’t it gone quiet?

25. Comment by pam49 —
    September 15, 2006 @ 1:40 am

    Sept. 11 was an awful and dreadful day for everybody. It doesn’t include americans alone but all the nationlities.

26. Comment by Lipton Sainclair —
    September 15, 2006 @ 12:58 pm

    (This is not repeat not Michael Moore’s ‘you attacked the wrong people,’ which is odious because it implies that there are were some right people to smash or burn alive.)

    However, I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that a lot of the folks gushing tears for these dead people would have in life called them “Joo Yawkers” and “liberal élitists out of touch with America” and the like. The sort of mind that comes up with salsa campaigns that equate being from New York with faggotry unfortunately seems to know something about The Great Unwashed (to quote a great conservative) that Carl Rove also knows: they love dead New Yorkers…so pimping dead New Yorkers to them pays.

    Maybe there’s sincere regret for the firefighters, who at least in stereotype were Reagan Democrats (but who apparently didn’t mind Father Mychal Judge, so perhaps they’re suspect as well).

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