{"id":1300,"date":"2007-09-11T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2007-09-11T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T19:57:24","slug":"anniversary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always written something <\/em>about 9\/11.\u00a0 I stand<\/a> by it all; I’m proud<\/a> of some<\/a> of it.<\/p>\n

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This year, I’ll let Michelle Malkin sum it up for me:<\/p>\n

But remembrance without resistance to jihad and its enablers is a recipe for another 9\/11. This is what fueled my first two books, on immigration enforcement and profiling. This is what fuels much of the work on this blog and at Hot Air<\/a>. Not every American wears a military uniform. But every American<\/a> has a role to play in protecting our homeland\u2013not just from Muslim terrorists, but from their financiers, their public relations machine, their sharia-pimping activists, the anti-war goons, the civil liberties absolutists, and the academic apologists for our enemies.<\/p>\n

The Left greets such a commitment with mockery <\/a>and derision<\/a>, preferring instead to suck its collective thumb, play the grievance card<\/a>, and engage in hindsight hypocrisy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the most infamous of all Internet leftists once said: Screw them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With a stick.<\/p>\n

Red was across the Hudson as it all happened<\/a> – and her writing about the whole thing<\/a> helped reel me into her blog, years and years ago:<\/p>\n

Behind me, pacing in the dark bar, was a guy on his cell phone. He had obviously gotten through to someone. Finally. I only heard snippets.<\/p>\n

“So he called you? ….. When? …. Had he gone downstairs yet? …. What time was that? Yeah … he called me when the first plane hit … I told him to fucking get the hell out of there … So he was on his way out when he called?”<\/p>\n

Snippets. Fragments of a story. A life.<\/p>\n

A man missing. Like so many people were missing in those days. Every empty wall covered in “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PERSON?”<\/p>\n

I heard the pain in the cell phone guy’s voice. But he was trying to keep it together. It was almost like when you know you need to cry, but you feel you can’t – and what happens to your voice when you’re holding all of that back. It gets tight, like a wire, rigid – but occasionally what’s going on inside you betrays you. There’s a waver in the voice, or you take a deep shaky breath … and there’s a tsunami there. Hovering above your head. Waiting for an opening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And of course Lileks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Six years.<\/p>\n

It seemed right away like it would be a big war, three to four years \u2013 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<\/em>. But that requires cultural confidence, a loose agreement on the goals, the rationale, the nature of the enemy and the endgame. We don\u2019t 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\u2019d done with half a decade, plus change. What part of 25 years of Death to America didn\u2019t we get, exactly?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For today, I have nothing to add that isn’t either specious or four or five years old.<\/p>\n

The only commentary worth reading isn’t written; support it by supporting our troops.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always written something about 9\/11.\u00a0 I stand by it all; I’m proud of some of it. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 This year, I’ll let Michelle Malkin sum it up for me: But remembrance without resistance to jihad and its enablers is a recipe for another 9\/11. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}