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JB Williams
The Second 9/11: If
Democrats Were Right
August 14, 2008
It was mid
December 2006, days before the biggest Holiday in America, the
celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ; only weeks after Americans
angrily removed Republicans from control of congress in the mid-term
election and replaced them with Democrats who promised to end the
unpopular Bush war on terror.
Americans were busy
working, shopping, decorating, cooking, traveling and preparing for
guests. The memory of September 11th 2001, the American financial
center, the military command in ruins and 3000 innocent American
civilians dead with countless others injured, had faded into distant
recesses of the subconscious.
Democrats had been
warning for five years that Bush’s policy of preemption had not made
America safer, but instead, less safe. They had traveled to the Middle
East on several occasions in an effort to undercut Bush’s imperialist
invasion of sovereign and peaceful Iraq, but to no avail.
The red blooded rush to
attack those who had attacked us had long passed and now, Americans
refocused their attention on bigger issues. The nation was weary of war
and in the mood for peace again. Gay marriage, abortion rights,
nationalizing medicine and energy, reparations for blacks and better
confiscation and redistribution of private wealth was atop the list of
priorities once more...
And That’s When
They Struck, Again...
While America slept,
the second 9/11 came. This time, there were no planes, no nineteen
hijackers, no box cutters, and no missed targets. Washington DC, which
had escaped earlier efforts by a plane downed in a Pennsylvania field,
was not the forth target but the first, followed by New York City, Los
Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. All five targets were hit at peak rush
hour, all within a ten minute span of time on the same day.
This time, there were
only five Middle Eastern men, each with a suitcase. They had slipped
through security because they looked westernized and overzealous
security measures of the past that often seemed like ethnic racial
profiling in the years following 9/11/01 had been reigned in. Absent
just cause, there was no reason, no right, to offend innocent Middle
Easterners legally in the states.
The U.S. intelligence
community had been stripped of its right to do the duty it was
established to do; to track and capture terror cells, find just cause
before they could strike again. Americans had become more fearful of
their security agencies than of the terrorists known to seek their
destruction.
Following a Middle East
visit by Senator Jay Rockefeller in January 2002, in which he privately
warned Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that Bush was set on invading Iraq
and removing Saddam Hussein from his rightful palace, Saddam’s WMDs were
trucked to the Syrian Desert. Bush would not actually turn his sights on
Iraq for another six months.
By early 2008, Israel
had "accidentally” hit a hidden Syrian nuclear weapons facility from the
air at the same location Saddam’s trucks had delivered them six years
earlier. But not all was lost...and some of those materials eventually
found their way into the new delivery system.
The five attackers had
been sent back to Pakistan after their visas expired. But the Mexican
military helped them back across the U.S. southern border, melded into
hundreds of Mexican citizens seeking freedom and prosperity in the land
of milk and honey north of the border.
By the time Christmas
arrived, the White House was gone, congress – gone, the Washington
monument – gone, Wall Street – gone, most of metro Chicago, Los Angeles
and Atlanta – gone! It will take months to get an accurate body count on
the dead, and who knows how long to count the injured. Both Bush and
Cheney were killed in the first of five detonations, as were most
members of congress in session on Capitol Hill.
The dollar collapsed
with the end of the U.S. government and financial markets. Americans
have only left their homes to search for food and clean water since and
people are killing and dying, just to eat. For the first time in U.S.
history, the unemployed outnumbered the employed and the future is
uncertain for every American.
America Was Not
Safer...It Was Less Safe!
Or, so say the
Democrats...In their desperate quest for more power.
If they were right,
this story would be a reality. Instead of worrying about trivial special
interest disputes between the haves and have-nots, all of
whom enjoy the highest standard of living and greatest degree of freedom
anywhere on earth, the 2008 election cycle would be about how Bush
failed to secure America after 9/11 - and now there is no America...only
memories of life before.
On the 2008 campaign
trail would be presidential hopefuls promising to rebuild America,
telling how Bush failed in the most fundamental responsibility of every
president, to secure his nation and his people, against all enemies,
foreign and domestic, by any means necessary. Every candidate would be a
war hawk, albeit too late.
There would be no
dispute over the definition of marriage, or the right of every child to
be born and live in a nation which respects innocent human life above
all else. It wouldn’t matter what color anyone’s skin was, which side of
the track they grew up on, what political party they belonged to, how
tall or short, fat or skinny, rich or poor anybody was...because finally
we are all equal - Equally hungry, scared, confused, desperate,
homeless, without country and broken.
If America were not
safer than on 9/11/01 – we would have already experienced another 9/11 -
maybe a few. But this is just a story, a scare tactic some will
claim...as there has been no second 9/11 on American soil.
Washington DC is only a
political mess. It otherwise stands right where it has for more than 230
years.
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta are still bustling with
life and activity. Americans still drive and walk the streets in peace.
In fact, without daily media body counts from afar, the average American
would hardly notice that the nation is still at war. We seldom even
remember to remember those still fighting and dying to make certain that
this war is not fought on our streets.
Yet according to
Democrats, America is not safer, but less safe. America is not great,
but weak. America is not built and run by those brave enough to demand
freedom, but rather by those self-centered enough to demand an endless
stream of free stuff.
If Democrats were right
about "containing” threats against America in the 90’s, there would have
been no first 9/11. If they were right that Bush has made America less
safe since, there would have been a second and a third 9/11...
But thank God,
Democrats remain stuck on wrong. There has been no second 9/11, because
Bush’s policy of taking the fight to the enemy before they can bring it
to us again, while politically unpopular, especially among terrorists,
has indeed made America safer. That is how it will be written in the
history books, no matter how modern leftists paint it, attempt to
re-write it or make excuses about it.
While Democrats go
about the silly business of making promises they won’t keep to our
nation’s takers, Bush, placing his trust in America’s greatest
givers, continues down the lonely road of keeping the most solemn
promise any President could ever make, to defend this nation, no matter
the cost. As if completely unconcerned with personal popularity, he
stays the course and prevents follow-up 9/11’s that could easily make
September 2001 seem like a day at Disney.
While Democrats work to
convince voters how terrible life in capitalist America is, and how Bush
has made America less safe with his warmongering ways, Bush stays the
course in his commitment to not allow another 9/11 on his watch.
While Democrats accuse
American soldiers of being terrorists and work to undermine their
missions and resources to carry out those missions, Bush will spend
whatever it takes to provide the only kind of support that can keep
America safe and bring American soldiers home in victory.
There is no second 9/11
on Bush’s watch...and though Democrats will continue to claim that
America is made less safe by this reality, Bush will continue the
policies that have prevented a second 9/11 until his watch is over.
Democrats were wrong to
think they could "contain” the likes of Bin Laden or Hussein. They are
wrong to think they can contain a nuclear Iran or North Korea too. They
are wrong to think that they can reason with people willing to blow up
their own children just to kill a few infidels.
And most Americans know
it, when they are not distracted by daily media body counts and
anti-American anti-war propaganda oozing from every American news room,
every Hollywood movie and every Democrat political campaign.
Most Americans wish we
could have preempted (aka prevented) the events of 9/11. Those who
remember 9/11, understand Bush’s desire to preempt (aka prevent) any
future threats. Those still mourning the loss of loved ones almost seven
years ago, still figuring out how to go on with life in their absence,
fully comprehend the vital difference between preventive and defensive
action.
Every loved one left
behind understands the reality that there is no need to defend against
attacks that have been prevented from ever materializing.
Most understand that
victory is the only acceptable option in this war and that the cost of
victory is a secondary consideration.
Since Bush was right,
the 2008 election cycle is based upon trivial social ills, the desire of
some to gain access to the earnings of others, the debate over sexual
perversions and whether or not a mother has the right to kill her young.
Had he been wrong, we
would be having a very different debate today. Finding a way to rebuild
America after a second 9/11 would be the only topic up for discussion.
I like to believe that
the vast majority of Americans understand this.
Clearly, too many
Democrats don’t! What will it take for them to learn? How many cities,
how many civilians? What body count will it take for today’s Democrats
to get it? Is political power really more important? |
