Re: How special ... Bushie was wearing his Flag Lapel
Speaking of flag pins amd politicians wearing them,journalist Charley Reese points out in his essay how politicos were scrambling to find one after 9/11.
He then goes on to put the attacks in some context comparing them to random and other events which interrupt lives many times over what happened on that 1 day.
Of course discussing 9/11,the attacks were just 1 aspect of a greater plan/plot,and had to be manipulated and enlarged into an instant mythology in order to achieve nefarious objectives.
Americans could handle adversity just fine,it depends partly on how and why it's presented to them.
excerpts below from:
We'd Go Nuts by Charley Reese
We'd Go Nuts
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I wonder how we would react if 50,000 of us got killed in one whack, as apparently has happened in the China earthquake. Or, God forbid, 121,000, which is the high estimate for the number of dead in the Myanmar cyclone.[/FONT]
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Judging from our reaction to the terror attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which claimed 3,000 lives, I suspect we would go nuts. Back in 2001, it became Terror Week on television, so that we got to see the damage endless numbers of times. Politicians were scrambling for flag pins and trying to remember the words of the national anthem. Hardly a family pet could be buried without the TV cameras and the mayor showing up.[/FONT]
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The president said it was our patriotic duty to spend money and then declared world war on terrorists everywhere, even though the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with the others.[/FONT]
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I infuriated one of the TV talkie boys one night. I accused him of being fearmonger because he was ranting about the ever-present menace of terrorism. I pointed out that while terrorists had killed 3,000 Americans, 17,000 had killed themselves in falls, 15,000 had been murdered by homegrown criminals and 109,000 died in accidents. He shouted and hung up.[/FONT]
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Never let the news media set your priorities for things to worry about. They will be hopelessly wrong. Any one American's chances of being killed by a terrorist is minuscule. The only thing you have to do to protect yourself from a bomb is be somewhere else, and in a country of 3 million square miles, the odds are that most of us will be somewhere else.[/FONT]
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There is no worldwide network of terrorists. Al-Qaida is the only group we have to worry about, and it is small and not very influential. Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad have no quarrel with us. Their quarrel is with Israel. Colombia's terrorists are trying to overthrow the Colombian government, and that goes for most guerrilla organizations in the world.[/FONT]
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A sensible administration would have taken out Osama bin Laden a long time ago. It's pretty embarrassing when you can't find a guy who is 6 feet 6 inches tall in a country where most people are short.[/FONT]
