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| The Lessons of 9/11 |
| 2008-09-11 |
| TODAY's joint visit to Ground Zero may give the impression that John McCain and Barack Obama share a common analysis of the causes of 9/11 and how to deal with its legacy. They don't. The divide starts with the question: Why was America attacked? McCain's answer is simple (or, as Obama might suggest, simplistic): The United States was attacked because a resurgent Islam has produced a radicalism that dreams of world conquest and sees America as the enemy. In different shapes and sizes and under a range of labels, that radical streak of Islam has waged war on America since 1979, when Khomeinists seized the US embassy in Tehran and held its diplomats hostage for 444 days. The killing of 241 Marines in Beirut in 1983, the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 and a host of other operations that claimed more American lives were episodes in a war - the reality of which the United States faced only after 9/11. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 You cannot ignore the trouble these islamonuts have done to us over the years and not respond and hope that it will go away. You have to deal with it such that it hits them where they live. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-11 11:14 |