Around the Web on September 11th
I contemplated doing a memorialesque post on 9/11 today, but I just don’t feel it’s my place. Seven years ago I was a screw-up college drop-out with no cares in the world save how to keep myself entertained. Since then I’ve finished college, gotten married, had our first kid, and gotten serious about the world. I’ve grown up, you could say, in a post 9/11 world. And unlike many of my fellow college grads, I don’t think the US is in the least bit responsible for 9/11. Extremists religious zealots committed that act of mass murder and terror. I offer no apologies.
Let’s keep fighting the bastards until they’re all dead or so badly beaten they can’t even blow themselves up anymore.
And now, what’s going on around the web?
Neo-Neocon writes an excellent analysis of the fembots character-assassination of Sarah Palin, denying her even her status as a woman.
Dr. Douglas of American Power breaks down the Veepstakes and lays bare just how foolish the Biden pick was, especially in contrast to McCain’s choice of Palin.
Still on the Palin front, Roland Dodds of But, I Am a Liberal! discusses the centrist shift to McCain, and the backfire of the smear-Palin campaign.
Darwin Catholic reminds us that we live in a Republic not a Democracy, though it is a Democratic Republic. Essentially, we are electing officials who do not owe us anything until re-election, which is a good thing as Democracy “is often a rather flighty thing, and I suspect that we would be more poorly governed if our nation’s policies changed as quickly as the opinion polls.”
Mark Steyn reminds us that “23% of Germans, 30% of Mexicans and 36% of Turks believe the United States government was behind the 9/11 attacks.”
Damn. I’m generally pro-immigration and all, but can we please find a way to keep at least those 30% of Mexicans out?
Little Green Footballs has video footage of McCain being released from Vietnam.
Thanks to Breitbart.tv we now have the wisdom of Matt Damon to guide us through these elections…
Modernity blog has news from Harry’s Place which just so happens to discuss the mad ramblings of a certain conspiracy theorist I’ve had run-ins with on Newsvine. Interesting. Small world…
Atlas Shrugs has some Islamic reactions to 9/11 posted. Sick, disgusting stuff from some familiar names including the beloved Iranian President…
Malkin has some thoughts on remembrance, and links out to some other major bloggers 9/11 posts.
And here’s one very nice tribute to the 9/11 victims and to one in particular, Sareve Dukat.
Who killed Sareve and for what reason? Nineteen rich boys from the Arabian Gulf region, high on Mohammed and violence, striving to create some kind of world-wide utopian, Islamist caliphate — another “ism” like communism or fascism; a solution looking for a problem.
It’s not a conspiracy, people. It’s not about some big Zionist/neocon plot. It’s about religious fanatical murderers who delighted in the killing of innocents.
Show some respect for the dead.
thanks for the plug, I was going to write on 9/11 but can’t quite get my thoughts together.
I should say, please don’t blame foreigners for iffy views on 9/11, with such problems closer to home?
be honest, in the US you’ve got college grads, college profs, writers and god knows, who else who think that 9/11 was either done by:
lizards
stand-ins from the X-Files
or dancing Israelis
so what exactly is their excuse for such weird and down right bizarre views over 9/11?
I mean, us, ignorant foreigners have our own excuses, but what’s theirs?
Modernity–
Oh, indeed we have plenty of 9/11 truthers right here at home. But you see, we’ve been focusing on that for years, and this new survey of foreign countries is, well, news to us…though perhaps not terribly surprising.
So in essence, this is just another step down the truther road. Here at home there is a very strong contingent…
What’s the cause of US truthers? I’d guess two things, maybe three:
1) Overactive imaginations;
2) Deep distrust of the Government and possibly other Governments (namely Israel) and
3) An inability to deal with the stark horror of the event, and the need to parse it into something else less plain, less brutal, and more in-line with their way of thought…
Now I know some people also question the extent to which the Government has been completely honest about 9/11–not exactly “truthers” per say. I would probably guess that there is more to the story that is classified, and would suggest it probably should be classified at this point….
Regards,
E.D.
E.D
yes, you’re right, but truthers are really an American phenomena
if asked some foreigners might be a bit skeptical about the US govt explanations, but that’s it
you’ll be hard put to find teams and teams of people, overseas, amongst us foreigners, who actually KNOW with absolute certainty that it didn’t happen, or that lizards did it
that’s not the same
truthing is a north American oddity, us foreigners have our own faults but maniac truthing (with a few very odd exceptions, see David Icke) isn’t one of them
modernitys last blog post..Don’t Exclude Mike Cushman.
Well, yes and no…I would say there is a very strong, native truther movement in the Middle East, but probably not elsewhere, though I would also say that I know firsthand several Europeans that are part of this movement, though they likely joined via American roots…
ED,
as I suggested, exceptions, David Icke is British
I am not saying there are NONE, but they are just a few very weird blokes, who’d believe any old nonsense
but it takes Americans to transform it into a movement!
as they used to say, all things are bigger and better in the US eh ?
modernitys last blog post..Don’t Exclude Mike Cushman.
Heh. Indeed. We Americans are certainly good at starting “movements” of all shapes and sizes….which, I suppose, is a good and a bad thing, depending.