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Never Forget (crossposted to my journal)
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maidenjediToday is the fifth anniversary of the USS Cole bombing.
This is not one of those days of which I have a very distinct recollection. I was probably working, back then full-time for the PR firm, and more preoccupied with the election than anything else.
But I do remember wondering then, what exactly are we going to do about these people who are determined to provoke us and hurt us?
Do you know, I still wonder that.
The "war on terror" started at different times for all of us. Maybe 1979, with the hostages in Iran. Maybe during the Munich Olympics, when the Israeli athletes were killed. Maybe during the '80s, with the airline hijackings. 1993, the first World Trade Center bombing. And so many other times.
I remember thinking in October 2000, exactly what is it going to take for us to get serious? Seventeen sailors died. We were pretty damn sure we knew who did it. A month later, we were so busy squabbling over hanging chads that we stopped talking about terrorism. In the interim months, sex scandals and vacations and celebrity gossip took over the airwaves. And a year later, we were wondering how we let 9/11 happen.
Five years later.
Michelle Malkin talks about the war on terror and the MSM.
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reverendbigdawg reminded me, this is also the anniversary of the 2002 nightclub bombing in Bali, killing 202, mostly tourists. That was al-Qaeda, too.
This is not one of those days of which I have a very distinct recollection. I was probably working, back then full-time for the PR firm, and more preoccupied with the election than anything else.
But I do remember wondering then, what exactly are we going to do about these people who are determined to provoke us and hurt us?
Do you know, I still wonder that.
The "war on terror" started at different times for all of us. Maybe 1979, with the hostages in Iran. Maybe during the Munich Olympics, when the Israeli athletes were killed. Maybe during the '80s, with the airline hijackings. 1993, the first World Trade Center bombing. And so many other times.
I remember thinking in October 2000, exactly what is it going to take for us to get serious? Seventeen sailors died. We were pretty damn sure we knew who did it. A month later, we were so busy squabbling over hanging chads that we stopped talking about terrorism. In the interim months, sex scandals and vacations and celebrity gossip took over the airwaves. And a year later, we were wondering how we let 9/11 happen.
Five years later.
Michelle Malkin talks about the war on terror and the MSM.
Also -
reverendbigdawg reminded me, this is also the anniversary of the 2002 nightclub bombing in Bali, killing 202, mostly tourists. That was al-Qaeda, too.