Remembering the day they attacked the Enlightenment :: Classical Values

A year ago (on what was the fifth anniversary of September 11), I felt the need to italicize what people seemed so eager to forget:

We are at war.

Nevertheless, 9/11 Truthers were (then as now) being hired to actually teach, and while it's easy to write them off as hardline fringe, a growing chorus of people were (then as now) in denial:

Wishing war away does not work, especially in the middle of a war. Might as well imagine that defeat is victory.

Then as now, pacifists demanded surrender:

Why is it that being "antiwar" always seem to exclude protests against the enemy?

How is it "antiwar" to submit to an enemy which calls for submission?

I know I've said this before, but September 11 is a day I'll always remember as a day for defiance. The enemy wants us to submit, and to submit is die. (In more ways than one.) The only "submission" coming from me is another blog post of deliberate defiance.

That was last year.

Full Article...

Sphere: Related Content