Everyone’s saying something about 9/11 today. But I can’t, because every time I think about it I feel like committing genocide.
I don’t like myself when I’m feeling genocidal. And I really don’t like knowing that I’m even capable of feeling that way.
But I also try to have hope for the future – which is a much better feeling – and if you’re looking for something hopeful, you can always check out the post I’ve put up at my personal blog every 9/11 since 2004.
I’ve avoided the whole thing until now, for the very same reasons. I feel no peace. No forgiveness. I don’t feel like hurting women and children, but the men are a different story. I don’t like knowing that part of myself is there but there you have it. So thank you for your post.
I feel pride every 9/11 that we are a country full of people that run to danger to handle things rather than a bunch of sissies who simply run away! I am also truly proud of our men and women in uniform who have been bringing the pain to the evil doers who attacked us. I’m certain that they have second thoughts about their actions since we have leveled their countries and killed most of their leaders. If they want a fight, bring it! We will give them a fight that they shall remember always!!!
All I can say, is that Afghanistan is lucky I wasn’t President on 9/11/2001. I would have carpet-bombed every square inch of that sh*t-hole, going north to south. And then again west to east for good measure. I would then go to the UN General Assembly for a speech, which would consist of “Anyone else want some? Raise your hand if you’d like some….. Anyone…?”
I suspect we will continue having “problems” with radical Islam until we begin killing them, their families, and everyone they know in sufficient quantities to make it clear to them that they will not succeed. I take no pleasure in coming to this conclusion, I just don’t see any other alternative…
I’m not much of the forgetting type, nor often the forgiving kind. As Michael said, I’m not that kind of angel. Each year I too put up the same post, simply a link to this, which I made to explain wordlessly (well, without English words) one major aspect of how I feel about it. The most politically correct aspect, for reasons you three have described very well. The video is just a slice, only New York and only the humanity; obviously there’s so much more. But yeah. After I made that a few years ago, I haven’t really done anything on the subject.
All I’ve got to say is that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc… were far too gentle. The country bin Laden was hiding out in should have been renamed Atomicblastistan.
Folks, no one should ever apologize for being honor if it’s warranted…it’s apathy that’s shameful. Likewise, there’s also nothing wrong with hatred if it’s well-deserved.
Please don’t buy into the whole phony “conflict resolution/anger management” PC crap – that’s what’s brought us from a superpower that other countries respected (and feared) to being a country that’s threatened and laughed at by third world dictators.
…umm, I don’t know how I typed “honor” instead of “angry”…
Thanks, Harvey. Felt the same way. Watched stoopid stuff on the Food Network (and, unfortunately, the Giants game) to avoid watching anything about it. If there’d been a special called “Asses We Kicked: How Many We Killed Back After 9/11,” I might have watched that.
Maybe Derbyshire’s right: Rubble doesn’t cause trouble. Flatten it and walk away. If they come back, flatten ’em again. A lot cheaper, too.
I could almost forgive the bastards for what they did to me — they made me mad, they inconvenienced me severely, they made me sad… But I can never forgive them for what they did to others, to my country, and what they almost did to my wife, working across the street from the WTC. I don’t have the authority to forgive them for everything anyway; that really is above my pay grade.