Friday, September 11, 2009

9/11: What Have We Learned?

In today's New York Post, Col. Ralph Peters powerfully argues that collectively, we are betraying the memory of 9/11. Is he right?
...Instead of acknowledging that radical Islam is the problem, we elected a president who blames America, whose idea of freedom is the right for women to suffer in silence behind a veil -- and who counts among his mentors and friends those who damn our country or believe that our own government staged the tragedy of September 11, 2001...
Instead of protecting law-abiding Americans, we reject profiling to avoid offending terrorists. So we confiscate granny's shampoo at the airport because the half-empty container could hold 3.5 ounces of liquid...
Instead of taking every effective measure to cull information from terrorists, the current administration threatens CIA agents with prosecution for keeping us safe...
In this clip, former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani cautions that 9/11 is "not part of our history--it's part of our present."