I think we should remind ourselves because I remember every day that on September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now.<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0 We haven’t been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time on September 20, 2001, to put us on offense against terrorists, and I think we as Republicans should remind people of that.<\/i>
\nNo I didn’t.<\/p>\n
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I really want to leave it at that, pithy and obnoxious.\u00c2\u00a0 And if you want to, I invite you to leave it at that and quit reading.\u00c2\u00a0 But it seems like political analysis and debate requires a bit more explication.\u00c2\u00a0 al Qaeda attacked the World Trace Center in 1993.\u00c2\u00a0 Then they attacked it again in 2001.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s an eight year lapse between successful attacks on American soil.\u00c2\u00a0 I expected when I got around to thinking about it for a moment on 9\/11 a duration like that before they manage to do so again.\u00c2\u00a0 If things went right for the evil doers, perhaps a duration to the major foiled plots of New Years Eve 2000 would have served an equal diliniation of time.<\/p>\n
Perhaps you were different.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps you were gripped by fear that on 9\/11 that you thought we were in for a bombardment of terrorist strikes, some of them hitting you right in your background splitting that old oak tree you placed a bird feeder on in Greensville, Iowa.\u00c2\u00a0 But you can’t live with that irrational fear, it is — I suppose — a 9\/11 mindset, and we need to adopt a post-9\/11 mindset.\u00c2\u00a0 So destructive is a 9\/11 mindset that the much maligned pre-9\/11 mindset would be preferable.
\nIn the meantime, the map we and terrorists are looking at is a little bigger than America, let us not forget that, so can it Rudy.\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody likes you anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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