Another thought about 9/11 - the enemy gets a vote about this - Granite Grok

Another thought about 9/11 – the enemy gets a vote about this

Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.

They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the Enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish.

They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the Enemy. And that, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the Enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn’t done enough for — yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part — something that we could correct. And this means that that our first task is that we must try to grasp what the concept of the Enemy really means.

The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason — it is his reason, and not ours.

I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating today.

And unlike Obama, I do believe the Enemy gets to have a vote on this.  It’s rather simple – a paraphrased adaptation of Cicero’s aphorism on politics:

We may not be interested in War, but be sure the the Enemy is at war with us.

One thing I guess I didn’t believe 15 years ago is that America would elect such a feckless President in 2008, and stand idly by while he flushed our global position, and security, down a left-wing toilet. But we did, and we’ll be paying the price for a long time.

God bless America. We need it.

We hadn’t done enough for – yet” – the typical and knee-jerk insta-thought by Liberals; an immediate retreat to self-guilt and “it’s our fault”.  Rubbish.

Evil exists (after all, the Left has explicitly said we Groksters are evil to our faces – right, Zandra Rice-Hawkins (of the out-of-state funded organization called Granite State Progress)?) and doesn’t rely on us or anything else.  We have Enemies as a country but it seems that the Left believes that we on the Right are more of a danger than Islamic Jihadis.

What is that all about?

(H/T: Instapundit)

UPDATE – from The Truth About Guns:

No matter how strong the antis’ argument about gun rights’ lack of social utility, no matter how unpopular gun rights may be in Democrat-controlled urban cities and states, not even the most diehard gun control advocate can argue that non-negotiable life-threatening evil doesn’t exist. Not after 9/11.

And so here we are, 15 years later, looking back at the horror, still trying to make sense of it.

Truth be told, the 9/11 attacks don’t make sense — not for anyone who cherishes human life. They can only be explained by the simple fact that there are people ready, willing, and able to slaughter innocent life to achieve their goals. Which is why this country has Second Amendment gun rights protection baked into its Constitution. And why so many Americans exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

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