Nine Eleven Seventeen

"What we never considered was a long, slow war, a conflict that burned and sputtered, skittered from one spot on the map to the other. The old wars were simple: the other side had accents, uniforms, nations, cruel habits and urbane sneers. The old wars took years. The old wars were in black and white. The old wars were monophonic, scored by Max Steiner, released by Warner Brothers, and the only proof they really happened at all was the small battered box in the back of Dad’s sock drawer, the box that held some oddly colored metal bars."--James Lileks

Daniel Greenfield: Everything I Needed to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11

"On September 11, some of us opened our eyes. Others closed them as hard as they could.
That Tuesday irrevocably divided my generation. Some joined the military, the police or became analysts. Others turned left-wing activists, volunteered as lawyers for terrorists or converted to Islam. ...
It still isn’t over.
After every attack, Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, New York, Paris, Manchester, London, Barcelona, we are encouraged to mourn and move on. Bury the bodies, shed a tear and forget about it.
Terrible things happen. And we have to learn to accept them.
But Tuesday morning was not a random catastrophe. It did not go away because we went back to shopping. It did not go away with Hope and Change. Appeasing and forgetting only made it stronger.
Everything I needed to know about Islam, I learned on September 11. The details of the theology came later. I couldn’t quote the Koran while the sirens were wailing. But I learned the essential truth. 
And so did you.
“Where were you?” is not just a question to be asked about September 11, 2001. It is an everyday question. What are you doing today to fight the Islamic terrorists who did this? And tomorrow? 
I found my answer through my writing. Others have made a more direct contribution.
But it’s important that we keep asking ourselves that question.
The 9/11 hijackers, the members of Al Qaeda, of ISIS, of the Muslim Brotherhood and the entire vast global terror network, its supporters and fellow travelers asked themselves that question every day. 
They are still asking it.
From the Iranian nuclear program to the swarm of Muslim Brotherhood organizations in America, from the Muslim migrant surge into Germany to the sex grooming gangs of the UK, they have their answers. 
Our enemies wake up every day wondering how to destroy us. Their methods, from demographic invasion to WMDs, from political subversion to random stabbings, are many. 
A new and terrible era in history began on 9/11. We are no more past it than we were past Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway. Its origins are no mystery. They lie in the last sound that came from Flight 93.
“Allahu Akbar.”
We are in the middle of the longest war in American history. And we still haven’t learned how to fight it. 
September 11 has come around again. You don’t have to run into a burning building or wrestle terrorists with your bare hands. But use the day to warn others, so you can answer, “Where were you?”".......

Robert Spencer: "Imagine if World War II had been fought the way the defense against the global jihad has been. Imagine it is December 7, 1957, the 16^th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack..."

We basically ignored the Islamists in 1993 because they "only" slaughtered a smaller number of your fellow Americans-- and because the Clintons viewed it as a distraction from the Big Government Project. Was that wise? The terrorists' intent was exactly the same as on 9/11; their bomb engineering merely failed.

Prof. Reynolds:

"Lee Harris’s Civilization And Its Enemies.

Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.
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They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the Enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish.
They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the Enemy. And that, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the Enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn’t done enough for — yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part — something that we could correct. And this means that that our first task is that we must try to grasp what the concept of the Enemy really means.
The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason — it is his reason, and not ours.

I’ve said all this before, but it bears repeating today. And if I don’t have anything new to say at this late date, well, it’s been a long time.
One thing I guess I didn’t believe 16 years ago is that America would elect such a feckless President in 2008, and stand idly by while he flushed our global position, and security, down a left-wing toilet. But we did, and we’ll be paying the price for a long time.
God bless America. We need it.".......

Long, slow wars get a lot longer and lot slower when we elect an enemy to lead us for eight years.

That enemy leader--our previous president--in addition to giving away much of our hard-won progress in Iraq, also gave the keys to the nuclear kingdom to his Ayatollah. And now we see the fruits of that treason in North Korea, where they are suddenly making huge nuclear strides with Iran's help. Traitor.

Everything I Know About Treason, I Learned From Barack Hussein Obama.

And they still wonder why America chose Donald Trump.


Like Johnny Mike Spann, He Fights!

(... back when the CIA fought terrorists, instead of its rogue leaders plotting a coup against the People's president...)

Sec. Mattis:
"While we never asked for this fight, we are steadfastly committed to seeing it through, as President Trump has made it abundantly clear," Mattis said.The defense secretary then mocked the Islamic terrorists as "maniacs disguised in false religious garb," saying they were wrong to think they could frighten Americans into submission. "We Americans are not made of cotton candy," said Mattis. "We are not seaweed drifting in the current. We are not intimidated by our enemies, and Mr. President, your military does not scare."

Washington Times: Trump marks 9/11 at Pentagon: ‘Our values will endure’:

“On that day not only did the world change but we all changed,” Mr. Trump said. “Our eyes were opened to the depth of the evil we face, but at that moment we also came together.”
He promised the families of 184 people killed when a hijacked airliner hit the west side of the Pentagon 16 years ago that their loved ones would never be forgotten.



“We mourn them, we honor them and we pledge not to ever, ever forget them.”