Day of the Murdering Swine

I have been hard pressed to write this years 9/11 post. We say that Sept. 11th, 2001 is a day that will live in infamy, that an atrocity of this magnitude will become a part of the American psyche forever. But will it? Ask you children what their teachers told them about 9/11 today, ask them if they were told that we were attacked my Muslim fanatics who wanted to kill as many Americans as they could. Ask them if their teachers mentioned that there are literally millions of these Islamo Fascist working each and every day towards the destruction of the United States of America and everything we stand for.

After listening to the likes of Barbara Boxer and her ilk on Capitol Hill totally disrespect and disparage General Petraeus, the man she sent to Iraq to lead our forces, I am filled with a smouldering anger and a disgust. These politicians are doing their very best to get even more of our soldiers killed. They want us to lose just so they can say that Bush lost the war. Our elected representative in DC want us to lose the war in Iraq, they want us to be defeated. They are worse than despicable and they should be run out of town on a rail.

Six years ago America was attacked. It was not the first attack by our enemies, not by a long shot, but it was the most successful. Six years ago our enemy proved that they could kill us by the thousands. The celebration that swept the Muslim world as the towers collapsed proved that this was not just supported by some small splinter faction of Islam, but by a large contingent.

Six years ago we were attacked, yet still our borders remain open, we make a show of airport security by searching kids and grandmas, and we still offer a visa lottery in Middle Eastern countries.

I really do not understand why we do not secure our borders, why we have not cancelled every temporary visa held by citizens from countries that are a source of terrorists, and why we put up with organizations like CAIR.

It is very likely that we have operational terrorist cells waiting in America, waiting and training for their big day. They may attack our schools, malls or infrastructure. The fact is that they are planning another attack. While they plan, the Democrats in Congress do their bidding and many of us attempt to forget the events of 9/11.

Some bloggers who have not forgotten:

Defiant Infidel with the post Day of the Murdering Swine.

Existing Thing comments on 9/11, 6 years later.

Ace with Remembered like it was yesterday .

Big White Hat offers up a prayer in Remembrance.

Sailor Curt remembers September 11, 2001.

Mike takes some time Remembering a day that is impossible to forget!

Robb Allen has good cause for Mixed emotions today.

Texas Fred offers up a linkfest of those who will Never Forget Sept 11, 2001.

Ken posts September 11, 2001, Never Forget, Always Remember !

The Liberty Sphere's Second Amendment News Roundup for 9/11/07 opens with "On this day of remembrance, may be remember--"

Kim will Never Forgive, Never Forget (My sentiments exactly).

Keven remembers 9/11.

US Citizen will Always Remember September 11, 2001 and provides us with another link fest.

Five Years

It seems like just the other day when my wife called me at work and told me to turn on a radio, that an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center. It does not feel like 5 years had passed since that nation changing day. But when you think about it, a lot has happened during those short 5 years.

The United States has been involved in not just one, but two significant wars overseas. Our military has done an outstanding job in record time. The battle for territory in both countries went quickly with very few casualties. The occupations are going better than reported by the media, but still not as well as hoped. In Iraq enemy combatants are coming from all over the Middle East to fight and attempt to disrupt the new Iraqi government, military and police. I never thought that this would be a quick war, but it appears that many in government did, at least they are saying they did.

Enough time has passed that our politicians have forgotten the importance of pulling together as a nation and fighting terrorism with one voice and one goal. Partisan politics has gotten as ugly as I have ever seen it. Nothing this administration does is right, the Democrats hinder the presidents efforts at every opportunity. Americans look at these actions on the hill with a touch of disgust and resignation to politics as usual. The enemy, be they terrorist or insurgents, look at this as a weakness that they can capitalize upon. They know that if they create a little bit more havoc, kill a few more Americans, there is a faction in our government that will use this news to try and divide our country further. The enemy understands the meaning of the strategy "Divide and Conquer". The enemy makes good use of our media to promote divisiveness here in the United States.

We have had a very public and partisan 9/11 commission convene to determine how this happened and how to prevent an act such as this from happening in the future. For my money, the commission was a waste of time and money. It did come up with a few good ideas for increasing security, but most of what they came up with was already in the works.

The Patriot Act was passed and reached the end of it's first sunset period. I am torn on this act, there are parts that are necessary, and there are parts that are a violation of the freedoms that we Americans hold dear to our hearts. The Patriot Act does need some cropping and tweaking to make it something that will work for Americans.

Since 9/11 five new grand babies have been added to our family to make a total of six. What lies ahead for these children? Are they going to grow up in a world where radical Islam spreads throughout Europe and suicide bombers walk the malls of America? I do fear for the future of my grandchildren. I fear that they will grow up in an ever more repressive environment of stronger and more invasive security requirements. I fear that may live to see a shooting war in the United States. I fear that they may watch the United States decline until it is not much different than a third world country due to unimpeded illegal immigration, and a majority of "New Americans" not being willing to assimilate into our culture.

Which leads me to what we have not done in the last five years:

We have not secured our borders, and it does not look like our representatives are too awful interested in getting that task done.

We have not figured out that the vast majority of terrorist are Muslim Men, between the ages of 18 and 45. We have not directed our security screening at airports and other public places to people that fit the description of most terrorist. Yes, we do still need to randomly check the general population, but lets see a little more emphasis placed upon the people who really want to kill us, not my Mom.

We have not really gotten serious about airport screening at all. We hire a bunch of high school graduates with no experience in dealing with people, much less in a security atmosphere, how can we expect them to succeed. We should be looking at what Israel does at their airports. How have they been so successful in screening out potential terrorist? If it works for them, maybe we should use some if their procedures.

We have not done much to get away from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

This started out to be a memorial to what happened five years ago on Sept. 11th, but it turned into a bit of a rant. I apologize to my readers, but sometimes you never know just where your fingers are going to take you when you sit down at the keyboard.

So, what is the best plan for the future? How should we go forward and ensure a great future for our children and grandchildren? I think Big White Hat has nailed it on the head with this post.

Never Forget - Never Forgive

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I found this at Pettifog Jots and Tittles and decided to see if I could get it to work and ta-da, it did.

People do need to be reminded, often, of what happened on September 11th, 2001. Too many of us try to put it behind ourselves as a bad memory, something not to be dwelt upon. There are times when forgetting is a good thing, when putting a bad experience behind us is the right thing to do. What happened on 9/11 should never be forgotten. The pain we all felt on that day should stay with us like an open sore until the threat of future attack is no more.

We, as a nation have to remember what was done to us. We have to remember that we were attacked, that a group of terrorist killed 2996 innocent people in one morning. We have to remember the images of terrorist supporting communities in Muslim nations cheering as our people jumped from the Twin Towers before they fell. We have to remember how we felt that day and during the following weeks. We need to hold on to a part of that anger, fear and pain. This is the only way we will stay vigilant and determined to end this threat.