My Gloom: Back to September 10
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
December 20, 2005
The attacks of September 11, 2001, made me feel more secure, unlike most Americans. Finally, the country was focused on issues that had long worried me.
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But I agonized whether it would last. "Are Americans truly ready to sacrifice liberties and lives to prosecute seriously the war against militant Islam? I worry about US constancy and purpose." And right I was to worry, as the alarm, solidarity, and resolve of late 2001 have plummeted lately, returning us to a roughly pre-September 11 mentality. A number of recent developments leave me pessimistic. read on
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Some optimism here, by contrast:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson121605.html
December 16, 2005
Lancing the Boil
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We quietly keep on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy.
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Also a very good point here in another article on the same site:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/thornton121805.html
December 18, 2005
The Purple Finger
Bruce Thornton
Why didn’t Jordan, for example, after Zaraqawi engineered the murder of its citizens, send a battalion of soldiers to help hunt down him and his fellow terrorists in Iraq? We know the answer: a critical mass of Jordanians, many of whom believe Israel was behind the attacks, would have erupted in fury that their government was aiding “crusaders,” “Zionists,” and “imperialists.” We should be publicly shaming every day all the governments in the Middle East that sat back for years as a dictator brutalized Muslims, and that now have done nothing to aid the Western forces that, as they did in Kosovo and Somalia and Kuwait, have rescued millions of Muslims.
Scary Stuff Part 1:
What If 9/11 Never Happened?
The Good News Is 9/11 Never Happened. The bad news?
Andrew Sullivan blogs from a parallel world
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Scary Stuff Part 2:
Just seen the movie United 93. Unmissable, best film I've seen for a long, long time. Very very moving.
If anyone gets any info on how (indeed, whether) this film is playing in Muslim countries, I'd love to know.
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