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Lib Writer’s Al Jazeera Op-Ed: ‘Let’s Forget 9/11′ & ‘Haven’t We Had Enough of Ourselves?’

Tom Engelhardt Urges Americans to Forget September 11thTom Engelhardt, a fellow at the left-leaning The Nation Institute and a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, says it’s time for the United States to “bag” remembrance of the September 11 attacks.

In an op-ed for Al Jazeera English, Engelhardt calls for an end to all things 9/11 and asks, “haven’t we had enough of ourselves?”

In Engelhardt’s view, there’s no need to read the names of those lost, to bring past and current presidents together, to honor first responders or to have moments of silence.

It doesn’t take long, though, for his thoughts to extend far beyond the reaches of the horrific terror attacks that took America by storm just 10 years ago. In dismissing the need to memorialize, he writes:

If we had wanted a memorial to 9/11, it would have been more appropriate to leave one of the giant shards of broken tower there untouched.

Apparently, Engelhardt sees the way in which America handles the anniversaries of September 11 as weak. Or, at the least, he views the observance and behaviors as inappropriate at this juncture. “If we have any respect for history or humanity or decency left,” he writes, “isn’t it time to rip the Band-Aid off the wound, to remove 9/11 from our collective consciousness?”

Regardless of one’s political opinion (and Engelhardt’s can certainly be described as left-of-center), it‘s practically impossible to wipe such a horrible event off of one’s mind — let alone the minds of a collective society.

While Engelhardt knows that such a prospect isn’t possible, he wonders why America won’t stop exploiting “the anniversary remembrances,” writing, “We could stop using it to make ourselves feel like a far better country than we are.”

But none of these thoughts appear to be rooted in a frustration with 9/11 itself. Instead, Engelhardt seems to see a connection between observance and federal policies he vehemently dislikes. He writes:

No more invocations of those attacks to explain otherwise inexplicable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our oh-so-global war on terror. No more invocations of 9/11 to keep the Pentagon and the national security state flooded with money. No more invocations of 9/11 to justify every encroachment on liberty, every new step in the surveillance of Americans, every advance in pat-downs and wand-downs and strip downs that keeps fear high and the homeland security state afloat.

He contends that the victims of 9/11 have been “misused” and he laments the blood that is on America’s hands as a result of the Middle Eastern wars that have been launched over the past decade. Additionally, he calls the attacks “in every sense abusive, horrific acts.”

Tom Engelhardt Urges Americans to Forget September 11th“Abusive” is an adjective some would say is too mild to address what occurred in America just 10 years ago. An accidental use of a weaker descriptive? Possibly. But as the op-ed goes on, other instances of downplaying what occurred on 9/11 are glaring. For example, consider the following (highlights are mine):

The facts of 9/11 are, in this sense, simple enough. It was not a nuclear attack. It was not apocalyptic. The cloud of smoke where the towers stood was no mushroom cloud. It was not potentially civilisation-ending. It did not endanger the existence of our country – or even of New York City. Spectacular as it looked and staggering as the casualty figures were, the operation was hardly more technologically advanced than the failed attack on a single tower of the World Trade Center in 1993 by Islamists using a rented Ryder truck packed with explosives. [...]

Despite the screaming headlines, Ground Zero wasn‘t Pearl Harbor. Al-Qaeda wasn‘t Japan, nor was it Nazi Germany. It wasn‘t the Soviet Union. It had no army, nor finances to speak of, and possessed no state…

Tom Engelhardt Urges Americans to Forget September 11thAfter delivering this blow, Engelhardt reinforces his view that the U.S. is “tattered,” in decline, “teetering at the edge of financial disaster,“ has a mess of an economy and is experiencing ”weird weather,” among other negative statements. And don’t let him catch you calling Ground Zero “hallowed ground.“ Engelhardt believes that it is ”defiled ground” and that it is we, as Americans, who have caused it to be so.

He laments: “It could have been different.” To Engelhardt, 9/11 was exploited by politicians to secure “a blank check for the American war state.” He continues:

It’s a terrible thing to ask those still missing the dead of 9/11 to forgo the public spectacle that accompanies their memory, but worse is what we have: repeated solemn ceremonies to the ongoing health of the American war state and the wildest dreams of Osama bin Laden.

Engelhardt’s piece is sure to inspire controversy. Its declaration that America is immensely flawed and its seemingly dismissive — though cautious — undertones may infuriate those who read it.

In the end, he is entitled to his opinions, though they certainly are far off from the mainstream. Ironically, his comments mirror those of New York Times’ columnist Paul Krugman, who called memory of 9/11 “an occasion of shame.”

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  • ZABO
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:46am

    my only respose to this liberial loser’s article is this“GO TO HELL”

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:51am

      My only response is to recommit to the 9-12 project.

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    • Joe1123
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:52am

      My thoughts exactly

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:11am

      He’s correct about one thing. We do have a Tattered Empty Suit as a leader. but underneath is the strength of the TEA Party and True Americans Patriots everywhere. This is just another DEMOCRAT “Journalist???. Limousine Liberal. Progressive Puke,

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    • MySacredHonor
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:14am

      Mine is a little more colorful.

      The guy who wrote this piece of crap Can kiss my plump white butt, and he better pack a lunch cause its a big job!

      im SO SICK OF THESE PEOPLE!

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:27am

      I don’t agree with this liberal, but I‘d say you should read his article in it’s entirety. His main point is, “The attacks of September 11, 2001 were in every sense abusive, horrific acts. And the saddest thing is that the victims of those suicidal monstrosities have been misused here ever since under the guise of pious remembrance.”

      He’s got a point there. From left to right, it’s all been highly politicized. We need some perspective. Over 500,000 have died in traffic accidents since 9/11 in the USA. In addition to this over 1,000 die every month in homicides. Not saying we shouldn’t memorialize it, just saying it’s way out of proporation. For crying out loud we didn’t build a WW2 memorial until 2004! Half a million American troops died in WW2! Cost of WW2 memorial? About $180 million. Cost of 9/11 memorial? About $600 million plus billions in government subsidies to reconstruct buildings that private industry didn’t feel a good investment.

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    • robert
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:55am

      “[I]sn’t it time to rip the Band-Aid off the wound, to remove 9/11 from our collective consciousness?”

      WHY?????

      I mean, why haven’t you written about removing the band aid regarding the Crusades which you still lament today? Or how about the Holocaust that occurred about 70 years ago? Or how about slavery that occurred 150 years ago? Why not advocate removing those band-aids?

      Why is it always white Christians who must not remember a hurt although it is most recent than what any of the other tribal crybabies whine about?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:07am

      Whoops! Bioengineer just suggested that you read the whole article and look at the context before you judge! What is he smoking?!?

      But really folks, what was the point to Billy Hallowell’s “article” here? All her did was take this other 9/11 article and selectively quote from it–why can’t we just have the original? Do we really need Hallowell to distill the argument into a series of block quotes?

      Here is something that Englehart says and Hallowell, for some reason, doesn’t quote:
      “This country has become dependent on the dead of 9/11 – who have no way of defending themselves against how they have been used”

      And he’s right! What Englehart is saying is that there is an awful lot of “honoring” going on, but very little RESPECT for the memory of the dead. Rather, as Bioengineer says, the dead are being repeatedly politicized for others’ gain.

      Odd how Hallowell’s quoting and summarizing misses the main point of the argument. I think he may need to take a freshman-year composition course if he can’t handle these basic writing tasks….

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:16am

      Thanks to the first amendment to the Constitution, we have to put up with daily diatribe, propaganda and dogma, as if it were the righteous invective of party line discourse, half truth and doctrine.

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    • kraphtsman
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:24am

      No surprise a leftist professor wants the rest of America to “forget” about the unpleasant realities of 9/11.
      So by this moron’s standards, we should also forget about what happened on 12/7 n Pearl Harbor… or what happened in Nazi Germany in 1939, as well as Soviet Russia in 1911.

      This evil college professor should be laughed out of a job… but we know the “smart” folks at UC Berkley would miss him too much.

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    • jhonjhonson1
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:40am

      Forget you, you stinking lefty!!!

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    • NuffSaid
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:59am

      BIO-Waste: ” Over 500,000 have died in traffic accidents since 9/11″

      At least these Ameicans didn’t die on their knees my brother! Neither will I.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:05am

      The ONLY thing right about this….

      Engelhardt writes…..
      “If we had wanted a memorial to 9/11, it would have been more appropriate to leave one of the giant shards of broken tower there untouched.”

      At the foot of this shard the statue of the Three Firemen Raising the US FLAG!!!

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:16am

      This man is just another America hating ass like krugman. while I hate to do so, I will have to give him credit for tha part about policians using 9/11 to put in place more restrictions on our freedoms. The “patriot act” is a prime example. It‘s typical ’never let a good crisis go to waste..” nothing new to politicians but we are finally waking up to this ruse.

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    • Jacque
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:18am

      So I guess with this losers logic we should rip off the band-aid for slavery, that was 300 yrs. ago and is still today being used for political ammo. Ask eric “the racist’ holder and his people! Or ask the radical islamic dictator destroying our country, he uses race every other word. So do ALL the libturds on TV, if you disagree with the dictator your a racist, rip THAT band-aid off.

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    • Charity in Truth
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:28am

      I wonder what other historical events and truths he is in favor of us forgetting?

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    • Senior Viking
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:55am

      I would like to help on his way.

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    • Mike N
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 12:15pm

      If this guy’s in such a hurry to put the past behind us, then shouldn’t we sooner abandon admissions and hiring quotas that overcompensate for those deprived of opportunity many generations ago?

      Liberals always find themselves trapped in their promotion of double-standards.

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    • Berbel73
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 12:47pm

      @ bioengineer & PubliusPencilman, You make these blanket statements that people are using the memory of 9/11 and those that lost their lives that day for political gain yet you don’t back that statement with and facts. Who exactly is doing this? It sounds to me anyway like you are claiming that there are people on the right that are being disingenuous, and I say back your claim up with some facts and some names! Because from where I’m sitting the only people that I see doing anything of the sort are the author of this horrific article and the liberal progressive New York times writer Paul Krugman!

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    • Macro-Myron
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Never forget – never forgive

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:30pm

      Oh of course its Berkeley. . where else but this arm pit a research school for the Government … for the sanctuary state of Cali … but of course..
      is this Paul Krugmans son?

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:41pm

      @Berbel73, no, I did back it up with facts. Let me connect the dots for you though since you apparently can’t. It’s very simple, the security situation is blown WAAAAAAAY out of proportion. Homeland Security, TSA, Patriot Act, estimates are that over $5 trillion has been spent on GWOT alone. All of this over 19 guys with boxcutters. ?!? Think about that. 19 guys with boxcutters. And not a one of them was Iraqi or Afghan. They didn’t even speak the same language as the people in Afghanistan. They couldn’t communicate with an Afghan any better than you could. 9/11 has been propagandized as a tool to fear everybody into multiplying the size of our government and shredding the Constitution here at home. Again, not saying we shouldn’t memorialize 9/11, just saying it’s WAAAAAAY out of proportion with reality. It’s completely hypocritical to cite the Constitution and attack the libs for entitlements while supporting other things that are just as unconstitutional and just as wasteful. The guy that wrote this article is an idiot for sure, but most of you guys railing against him are simply the other side of the same darn coin. Your rhetoric is just as dumb. Get a grip!

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    • Norm D. Plume
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:49pm

      @BioEngineer:

      Well said.

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    • FreedomChick
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:02pm

      Ditto!

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    • richard the lion-hearted
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:05pm

      Just another John Lennon, imagine-type moron who thinks that pulling the ‘Hello Kitty’ comforter over their head and wishing away all the bad in the world will somehow work if just enough of us collectly think it together…blind fool. Yeah, while we‘re at it let’s forget the holocaust ever happened and just move on for ‘peace’ sake…oops, I forgot that‘s already going on and now it’s about to happen again…so much for Tom’s proposal.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:24pm

      No one will soon forget 9/11. What Engelhardt objects to is the seemingly endless, maudlin, self-pitying commemoration of the event, the fear-mongering that has set us on the road to a surveillance state, and the hideous expense of turning the “war on terror” into actual large-scale military operations. Where in this is he so wrong?

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    • knockered
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:06pm

      To bad he wasn’t in one of the towers exactly where the plane entered so he would feel first hand why real Americans feel the way they do and will never forget what those islamic extremists did. Go to helll you freakin idiot..

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    • Stalinist from Balkan
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:31pm

      This guy is wrong.World can never forget when American Reichstag got burned down,and American Reich started to terrorise the world with Americanism.The American brand of fascism.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:47pm

      Of course this lib wants us to forget, how in the world are we supposed to embrace multiculturalsim, crawl in bed with muslims, further destroy America, and move toward one world governemnt, when we see the actual handy work of islam?

      I bet he really has a tough time in people remembering what happend to the Jews during the holocost.

      Libs hate truth, thus the reason they want to change history books to match their agenda. They hate facts, statistics, real science. They want religion when it comes to their false evolution via Darwin, and they want religion when it comes to Al Gore’s global warming.

      This man is typical of the left

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:29pm

      He (they) only need to be marginalized and ignored. Here in the best country in the world you are FREE to have the most convoluted opinion in the world. That in itself is something to celebrate…

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    • getalong
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:45pm

      I suggest this totally clueless man go live in a Sharia-law country and see how he likes it. Yesterday, I sat and listened to every single name called at the 9/11 memorial, and I cried for their families and for the lost opportunity that was taken from them to live their life. What keeps America strong is that WE VALUE LIFE above anything. This goofball needs to go live somewhere where they do not value life.

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    • WeeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:09pm

      “Lib Writer’s Al Jazeera Op-Ed: … ‘Haven’t We Had Enough of Ourselves?’ ”

      No, we haven’t had enough of ourselves … and neither will you.

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    • Free_Thinker
      Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:45am

      We have not forgotten about Pearl Harbor and that was 70 years ago!

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    • Anamah
      Posted on September 13, 2011 at 4:20am

      You, NYT, Trumka and Krugman get out of our life!!! You are a piece of crap.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:21pm

      .
      “haven’t we had enough of ourselves?”
      No.
      But I‘ll tell you what I’ll never forget.
      The image of you Palestinian ass clowns dancing in the streets.
      Now you want me to turn on Israel for you?
      You can kiss my rosy cheeks.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:43am

    Sure, right, we’ll do that right after everyone of the Islamic world declares peace with israel and melts their guns and throws their bombs in the sea. Right after that, ok? Oh and by the way, we are working on a change of management in this country, might want to consider peace.

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    • proantisocialist
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:17am

      awsomely said!

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:54am

      I agree with BioEng. You do have to read all of the article. Although he does say that 9/11 was an excuse ro go to war (crazy imo) We are feeding into the terrorists plot by making it a televised spectacle. I am not down playing the event ( I still have to turn the channel when I see the towers on fire or I lose it) but do think that the families may want to mourn in their own way but feel like they have to participate in these large memorials. We all grieve in our ways, but maybe we should give them a chance to decide to move on or just pay respects in their own way!

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  • dupaws
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:42am

    As always the liberal, left wing crap for brains, are trying to take the heat of the Muslims. Well guess what what they did, they have done and it will not be forgotten. They are to stupid to know what they are bring down on all of us. Liberals trust me, you will one day pay for your PC crap.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:10pm

      Look at that picture….pancaking?…lol

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:12pm

      I confess..I used an open spot on the front page…Sorry, Dupaws

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:21pm

      Where’s the tamper and where are the core columns?….Sorry again, Dupaws.

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  • cessna152
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:41am

    America’s Writers: Al Jazeera Op-Ed: ‘Let’s forget LIBERALISM/Socialism, we’ll always remember 9/11′ and vote out these freaking Marxists that hate America!!! Never forget 2012 and forward!!!

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  • Gary Fishaholic
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:39am

    We will never forget God bless all the fallen.

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  • markthespark
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:36am

    Forget? I think not.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:35am

    That Liberal Engelhardt needs to understand one of two things about 9/11:

    He can either lump it or leave the nation.

    9/11 is a day that WE the PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES were ATTACKED.
    9/11 is a day that WE AWOKE to the ENEMIES WITHOUT.
    9/11 is a day that WE BEGAN PAYMENT DUE of the ATTACKERS.

    9/11/2011 is the day WE the PEOPLE RECOGNIZE we fight the ENEMY WITHIN.
    November/2012 WE TAKE THE NATION BACK.

    If you do not like this great land, or respect other peoples oppinions, and the freedoms we are endowed by the Creator with; then you do have the freedom to leave and never come back.

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    • Hickory
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:42am

      We will never forget. Liberals would like for all of us to have a memory lapse and forget it all. Then, they would like for us to welcome sharia with open arms. It’s not going to happen and the left can, as Maxie Waters said to us, “Go to Hell”.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:53am

      Snow…..Good Morning,,, I think you have said it all and very well indeed.
      You have stated all that needs to be said.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:15am

      Amen Brother!!

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    • NuffSaid
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:19am

      Well done!

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:42am

      @SNOW ~~

      I agree on all but one point: I believe WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA began taking our country back on 9.12.01. We just didn’t know we had so much taking back to do or the seriousness of battling forces withIN our own country. Who would have ever thought?

      But, think and pray and work, rebuild and cry we have and we ARE TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK even this day, this 9.12.11

      GOD BLESS AMERICA, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and may HE BLESS our efforts to restore her in HIS NAME, and in the name of none other.

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  • starman70
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:34am

    WHAT AN IDIOT!!! Do we forget Pearl Harbor? Do we forget the Lucitania? Do we forget the battleship Maine? Do we forget being American? This writer has his head so far up his anal cavity he needs a glass belly button to see.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:41am

      And a colonoscopy to pull it out. :)

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    • Norm D. Plume
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 1:57pm

      Hahahhah…

      Pearl Harbor: FDR ordered a blockade of the Japanese oil supply — they were trying to loosen the strangle-hold we (undeclared participants in the hostilities of 1939-1941) held on them. FDR and the Naval command in the continental United States knew the Japanese were on their way to Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were not “running silent”. Lots of radio chatter was picked up — the only one surprised was the commandant of the Pearl Harbor naval station, whom the command had neglected to notify that there was a threat.

      Lusitania — Loaded with weapons bound for Britain, after the Germans told us in no uncertain terms that if that ship sailed, loaded the way it was (and they had intel at the time — don‘t think they didn’t,) that it would go to the bottom. This is a game the Wilson administration played to get us into that war.

      USS Maine — Blown up in Havana harbor BY A COAL BIN EXPLOSION. Not an act of war, but sure was convenient!

      Gulf of Tonkin — Same sort of thing as the USS Maine.

      Are you seeing a pattern here? Propaganda is NOT fact, or is only about HALF THE STORY.

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  • Berealalready
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:33am

    Why do people who seem to dislike/hate/revile this nation so much want to stay and live here?

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    • mficentral
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:01am

      I cannot figure that out either. I would not stay anywere I hated. Does anyone know why people stay when their hate is all they have. That they make a living out of it. Take John Kerry, he came back from the Vietnam war and told so many lies about the military that he should have been charged. But the libs in Mass. love him so I guess they agree with him. This president sends him all over the world to advance his opinion. Just like he did during that war.

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  • Unbelievable
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:32am

    We will NEVER FORGET!!

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  • MAXIMUS_MARIUSZ
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:32am

    This coming from a leftist, socialist, white-guilt, slavery-laden, racist. We’ve been hearing about the atrocities of slavery for over 150 years from the likes of this moron and his ilk. America will NEVER forget the heinous acts of cowards that killed innocent children, women and men on our own soil. You, sir, are not a true American speaking such words of disdain.

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  • Jim in Houston
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:31am

    Let me tell you something you you liberal piece of sh#t, WE WILL NEVER FORGET and your Muslim buddies better think long and hard before they start anything else or we will make their sand pile into a piece of glass!

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    • mficentral
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:06am

      That will never happen as long as the Dems are in power. Their PC will kill us all. JIM IN HOUSTON from your mouth to “We The People’s” ear. I think the first place we should make glass is MECCA.

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    • HeapingCoals
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:01am

      I’d like to think the US would respond aggressively to another attack, but with loons like the ones in Washington now I think we’d just apologize profusely for provoking Islamic rage. I‘m afraid we’ll just have to leave the glass making to the Israelis.

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  • Tickdog
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:30am

    Get rid of libs and democrats.. then you would have a UNITED STATES of AMERICA…

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:30am

    Put a 50-foot high bronze statue with 20 Muslims hanging by their necks from the beams of the Twin Towers and I might consider toning it down, A bit. Probably not.

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    • CleanUpAisle2013
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 9:38am

      @Nuffsaid … too few feet high and far too few Muslims. And that should read, ” … hanging by their necks after being dipped in bacon grease …”.
      Englehardt and other brain dead puppets like him never cease to amaze me when making comments like “inexplicable war in Afghanistan”. Inexplicable?!! You dumb waste of flesh and gutless blood! No, Tom (!), 9/11 WAS our 21st century Pearl Harbor in every way possible. And suggesting that we forget 9/11 is like saying we should forget the 4th of July. September 11, 2001 was our rebirth, reminding us in the most horrific of ways how precious this nation is and that we must rededicate our efforts to see that it remains the strongest, the most enduring and the most endearing nation of all. Your words and your books border on US treason, Tom. Careful that you don‘t dislodge yourself from Al Jazeera’s teat. Your head-of-the-class status might soon be changed to beheaded-by-the-class.
      Forget 9/11 ?!! Forget you !!

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:25am

      I like the idea posted about using a piece of the original wall, with the statue of the firefighters raising the flag. But that would be WAY to intaginistic for the PC crowd. I memorial is nice if, imo, not right for the situation. I hope the museum is better.

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  • jcldwl
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:30am

    It’s the people that think like this guy that are causing the downfall of our country. I’ll just pray for his soul because he certainly needs it.

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  • ronaldreaganthegreat
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:29am

    What a communist POS! I hope I meet that focker face to face some day:-)

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:28am

      why would you want to punch him in the face and get crap all over your hands?

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:29am

    By any chance could we train a flock of birds and target Berkeley for a massiave bird **** attack??

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:42am

      Well, it’s already pretty full of fecal material as it is…….

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  • drago
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:28am

    It is past time to rid this nation of this cancer, permenantly, and with extreme predudice! This un/anti americanism must stop, it must be destroyed once and for all, by any means necessary.

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:28am

    Isn’t Al Jazeera the news organization that Hillery says is the only one thats reports the news properly. OH REALLY

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    • Norm D. Plume
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:02pm

      I have Al Jazeera as a channel on my Roku.

      Surprisingly, they‘re showing a LOT of stuff going on in the Middle East that doesn’t get shown here. Not all of it is “pro-Iran“ and ”anti-American”. It is surprisingly balanced.

      You should try it some time. It surprised me. Since Fox and the other major networks choose only to put useless little snippets of ridiculous shows on their Roku channels, and do not have live feeds, Al Jazeera (and Russia Today, but that one gets a little too propaganda-ish for me at times) are the only “news-all-the-time” outlets I have.

      The depth and breadth of their reporting is far better than anything you’ll see on the major networks.

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  • one years food ration like glenn says
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:27am

    We could stop using it to make ourselves feel like a far better country than we are.” <<< Agreed by TIFOSA , ECONMON and the rest of the idiotic leftist communists. The cloud of smoke where the towers stood was no mushroom cloud.. Trust me, if they could've they would've nuked us. moron.. Apology ??? Nah, didn't think so…

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:26am

    The libs were saying that just days after 9/11. LOL

    In 1968 one of the Poli Sci 101 classes was being taught by a Muslim at the University of Oklahoma…they’ve been in our society for a long time. He was abundantly cautious of what he said and did teach the right things, at the time.

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    • mrfunn
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:03am

      Wonder what the motivation is for him wanting us to just forget about it?
      Perhaps he would like to see Sharia law replace U.S. law.

      University of California, Berkeley professor?
      Hey all you parents of kids at this university, how do you feel about this dangerous fool brainwashing your kids.

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  • Emrys
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:26am

    He’s a fool, and certainly no historian. He‘s the one wanting to put a ’band-aid’ on the wound, rather take one off, by wanting us to move on, nothing to see here, get over it (and ourselves). Rather than deal with the problems that created the tragedy (Islamic fascism, lack of governmental agency cooperation, etc.), he’d rather put a walkway over the ruins like we did the USS Arizona, and let it just sit there rusting in the wind.

    Instead, how about we do this: memorialize those who died, comfort their loved ones and friends, never forget it happened, and do something to make damned well sure it never happens again! These thoughts probably never even entered his over-educated mind.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:22am

    “a blank check for the American war state.” But the blank checks Obumbler keeps demanding in order to ensure that this nation is brought to its knees are A-OK in this twit’s book. right?

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  • IntransigentMind
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:21am

    We should always remember our fallen, and while we’re at it, we should remember something else:
    http://markamerica.com/2011/09/11/9-11-remembering-the-fallen/

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    • LIBSALWAYSLIE
      Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:27am

      We Will NEVER Forget! God Bless America!

      Liberals disgust me…

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  • IntransigentMind
    Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:20am

    And people wonder why we’re losing?
    http://markamerica.com/2011/09/10/american-leadership-surrenders-how-we-lost-the-war/

     
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