Aug 24 2006
25% Of Country Doesn’t Get 9-11
You have to scratch your head and wonder how people can live in such fantasy bubbles to conclude we were safer before 9-11 than we are now – after numerous attacks have been foiled, attacks that would have easily snuck by our lethargic defenses just as the 9-11 highkjackers. These people are chronic pessimists who have succumbed so hard to BDS they have lost rational thought. Yeah, we sure were safe before 9-11! We were blissfully ignorant of the threats aligned against us. Now I understand the left’s desire to shut down the NSA’s efforts to detect future attacks. Their need to block out all information that threatens their world view means they need to shut up the NSA so we can be left in peace. Just like we were September 10th.
I can’t really draw conclusions from that statistic alone. This, however, clarifies it to me:
“Fifty-five percent of poll respondents said they believe the U.S.-led war in Iraq has made the country less safe from terrorist attacks, and 59 percent said the war has made the world less safe from terrorism.”
After all, were we safer from attack before Pearl Harbor or after? On the surface, that may seem absurdist. Obviously, before Pearl Harbor, the biggest attack on our shores. But, had the Nazis, say, developed the nuclear bomb… and used it on us, the story would be different then.
We definitely became much more an object of their aggression after we were bombed and entered the war.
Yet, we know, ultimately, we were much less safe before the war because we completely discounted the threat they already posed to us. Pearl Harbor didn’t happen after we entered the war. It entered before.
But, I could see where some people’s vision could get cloudy there, reasonably.
Personally, I do not feel 9/11 was nearly enough to wake people up to the threat we are facing. Yet, if 9/11 wasn’t, maybe nothing is. My impression is such people are on the other side entirely.
Sadly, it is acceptable today to be on the other side. That isn’t called unpatriotic, that is called a fair partisan viewpoint.