Several people, including Jules Crittenden [1], have noted the New York Times column by world famous idiot Tom Friedman :
Tom Friedman: “9/11 has made us stupid [2].”
Sure has made some people stupid, no question. Friedman is writing against Giuliani as the “9/11? candidate, saying we need a 9/12 candidate. Which, as an attempt to be clever, is pretty stupid, too. 9/12, you’ll recall, was the day after 9/11. Pretty much the day its been ever since. I don’t know what you were thinking about that day. I actually was thinking about international tourism, just like Friedman wants us to. But I was working out a travel itinerary for Afghanistan.* Friedman wants to get everyone thinking about travel to the United States. A lot of people were thinking about that on 9/12, too. Jose Padilla, Richard Reid, to name a couple.
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Friedman’s 9/12 argument, ironically, is a variant of George Bush’s biggest post-9/11 mistake. When he told a nation looking for leadership to “Go shopping!” instead of “Enlist!” The latter being the message our current and 1/20/09 leadership still need to focus on. The war isn’t over by a long shot.
Friedman says :
What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.
Two points;
- That only occurs once you have won the war. Peace, is not a product of capitulation and withdrawal. It is a product of a winning the war.
- So, America is now stupid because of our fixation on the attack on us? Well, before you get too far down that road, consider the idea that these people you’re calling stupid, are reading you Tom… I’ll leave you to do the math on that one.
Bonus: “You’re all stupid” doesn’t seem a particularly persuasive argument, even absent points one and two. But such is the level to which BDS sufferers seem to sink to as a matter of routine, lately.
Others:
Don Surber [3], BartBlog [4] JammieWearingFool [5] Stop The ACLU [6], Wizbang [7], The Strata-Sphere [8], Conservative Belle [9], The Van Der Galiën Gazette, [10]
Riehl World View [10], , Sister Toldjah [11], Roger Ailes [12],