Worth Remembering 9/11

This day has become an unofficial holiday for Red Team. Members of Conservative Inc get to go on TV and act solemn and serious, maybe even say a bad word about Islam. The Forever War crowd gets to compare some batch of Muslim fanatics to Hitler, demanding we blow them up before, wait for it, we have another 9/11. The only good thing is Lefty stays home and hides under his bed. Otherwise, Derbyshire is right on this one. You don’t celebrate great failures or humiliations.

Jim Geraghty has this on his blog.

We remember how the 9/11 era began today, and the emotions are still fresh and strong, 13 years later.

But that was only one part of the story.

Take a good look, ISIS. You never know when the U.S. Navy SEALs are at your door.

My response:

Not really. It was a stunning failure by our rulers, for sure, but not one worth remembering. If our rulers had learned from their blunders leading up to 9/11, then sure. But, they learned nothing. They continue to troll Muslim countries for immigrants. Inviting people who want you dead to settle in your lands is madness, but here we are anyway.

If anything, our rulers drew all the wrong lessons. They reasoned that the Muslims attacked America because it was full of Americans. If they could just replace all the Americans with foreign imports, problem solved! Since 9/11 Muslim immigration has gone up with over one million of them coming here from places like Yemen, Syria and Iraq.

I guess if you want to get weepy on 9/11, the thought that our rulers are not the only people who want us dead is a good reason.

The lesson of 9/11 is big bureaucracies are not good at this stuff. That’s not what they are built for, which is why they fail at small, complex tasks. Government is a sledgehammer, not a scalpel. In order to prevent another 9/11, we should have immediately ended all immigration from Muslim countries. Visas for visiting should have been limited to diplomatic and high level trade. If an oil sheik needs to come here to do a deal with Exxon, fine.

Further, Muslims here should have been deported if they were not citizens. The foreign funding for mosques should have been confiscated. We can’t ban the religion, although I would be in favor of it, but we can encourage our citizens to put out the unwelcome mat to Muslims. Islam is a fine religion that brings its adherent happiness. It is incompatible western democracy. It is hostile to western culture. We should have learned that 13 years ago. Our rulers learned the opposite.

Happy 9/11

7 thoughts on “Worth Remembering 9/11

  1. How long before one of our elected “betters” proposes a Muslim History month to educate the unwashed on the great Islamic contributions to American society?

  2. Great post Z man.

    re: Gonwiththewind’s major religous charity groups bring in the immigrants.

    How true. Also consider the Liberals in the Ivy league as seen in their magazines. My wife and I have Ivy degrees and get the alummni mags: story after story of bringing the blacks and browns to the USA seem to never end and have been published for decades.

    Dan Kurt

  3. Two major religious charity groups are responsible for bringing most of the muslims to this country. I’m not sure any NGO should be involved in this process but I am very sure they should pay the costs and not the taxpayers. To just be angry about it doesn’t work we need to create a organization that would take these NGOs and their members to court. Civil lawsuits is a good place to start.

  4. Remember this from July 28th of this year?

    “President Barack Obama: “In the United States…Eid also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/29/obama-thanks-muslims-building-very-fabric-our-nati/

    Remember when the geniuses in our government bureaucracy sent out flight school approvals
    for two of the already dead hijackers just six months after 9/11?

    These agencies are un-fixable.
    There’s no consequences, or accountability in any of these absurd agencies & departments. Filled with endless AA hires, pc dullards and angry gyno-Americans all pulling down 6 figures plus, plus bonuses and benefits. It has only gotten worse since 9/11.

    “The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has also been excoriated for several spectacular gaffs – most infamously, for sending notification to a Florida flight school that two of the hijackers had been approved as students six months after their deaths.(9/11) But there has been no comparable effort to examine the failures of our immigration system. For example, all of the September 11 hijackers were issued visas, but there have been no extensive congressional hearings or investigations by the General Accounting Office or the Office of the Inspector General to determine whether the State Department, which issued the visas, erred in any way.”

    http://cis.org/HowTerroristsGetIn

  5. Yesterday’s sorrowful speech by The One clearly demonstrated the truth of your claim that some people learned absolutely nothing from 9/11. I am torn between the alternatives that Obama is either not bright enough to have learned anything from 9/11 or else he harbors such deep sympathies for the Islamic faith he cannot acknowledge its PROFESSED threat to Western Civilization. I’m inclined to choose the latter and say he is a CINO, a Christian in Name Only.

  6. Your prescription is but what Roosevelt would have done. The NSA, Fatherland Security, and a few dozen alphabet agencies are in fact making it possible, temporarily,both to import and ignore trouble. Absent the omnipotent state they would never have been encouraged to come here, quite the contrary. And of course the omnipotent state also has the advantage of controlling other citizens which the state considers a far great threat. The State has not been shy about exclaiming who they are.

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