9/11

While I understand why people--especially politicians--who are not related to any of the 9/11 dead do it, I am not a fan of treating 9/11 as a time to MOURN the people who died on that day.

 

As I continually point out, 42,000 people (actual live, breathing Americans with hopes and dreams) die in traffic deaths each year.  Are their deaths any less worthy of mourning than those who died on 9/11.  There was a rather ridiculous story yesterday about a study showing 70,000 people "may" have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of 9/11.  There is something unhealthy about being TOO morbid and obsessed with the VICTIM idea.  As a former personal injury lawyer, I can assure you that the people who "may" have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in traffic, and other, accidents in this country is in the MILIONS.

 

Yes, there IS a reason to memorialize 9/11 that is much more important that mourning the dead.  9/11 was supposed to be a "wake up call" for us that we can't afford to simply sit back and wait for TERRORISTS to hit us.  We have to take the war to them.  You can consider Iraq a mistake and still have learned this lesson.  But if we FORGET this lesson, then we are in trouble.

 

That is one of my problems with MoveOn.org. type Democrats.  I am not sure they ever LEARNED the lesson of 9/11.  I am sure that, if they ever learned it, they have forgotten it.  You cannot have learned the lesson of 9/11 and still want to go back to our PRIOR policy of treating terror attacks in the U.S., or even globally, as a matter of LAW ENFORCEMENT, with Miranda rights and all of the rest.

 

Yet, when Democrat politicians of the left have not seemed to be more interested in trashing the U.S. for our mistakes than fighting terrorists, they have seemed more interested in the rights of terrorists than the "rights" of people like those who died on 9/11.  You can worry about not compromising our freedoms for secuirty, but when you OBSESS about it, you are dangerously off the beam.  

 

As I have said, for MANY leftists the MAIN enemy is the Bush Administration, and not al-Qaida and other truly evil people in the world (evil on a scale even beyond CNN--see entries over the last 10 days on that particular evil of a somewhat lesser kind than terrorists). 

 

For those of you who may think I am "disrespecting" 9/11 for looking at it this way, I am sorry.  For me, however, you lose the MEANING of 9/11 if you treat it merely as a time of sadness and mourning.  We would be "mourning" a lot more people EACH year if we set aside a day to mourn the people who died in traffic accidents the previous year.