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9/11 Six Years Later
Sep. 11th, 2007 06:32 pm♠
I will commemorate this anniversary of 9/11 with the observation that it has been a refreshingly cool summer anent the jihadist threat.
Back in the spring of this year, you may recall that we were getting a lot of indications and warnings that we were in for a heated summer of jhadist violence against America and Israel. Although it is true that we have not enjoyed peace, we also haven't really suffered the promised surge of violence, under which we should have suffered by now a wave of suicide-bombing attacks in America.
Instead, all we have gotten are a couple of embarrassingly flaky videotapes from the once fierce lion Osama bin Laden, in which he seems to have lapsed back into the Stalinist era of orthodox Leninist-Marxist ideology (maybe from his college days?) in which capitalism is the root of all evil. Of course, salvation is not to be found in those tired communist formulae, but in converting to fundamentalist Islam! Yeah, I think we'd rather pay higher taxes.
True, such violence is likely to occur sometime, but it is intriguing to see the summer pass by in dull, lazy ordinariness.
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I will commemorate this anniversary of 9/11 with the observation that it has been a refreshingly cool summer anent the jihadist threat.
Back in the spring of this year, you may recall that we were getting a lot of indications and warnings that we were in for a heated summer of jhadist violence against America and Israel. Although it is true that we have not enjoyed peace, we also haven't really suffered the promised surge of violence, under which we should have suffered by now a wave of suicide-bombing attacks in America.
Instead, all we have gotten are a couple of embarrassingly flaky videotapes from the once fierce lion Osama bin Laden, in which he seems to have lapsed back into the Stalinist era of orthodox Leninist-Marxist ideology (maybe from his college days?) in which capitalism is the root of all evil. Of course, salvation is not to be found in those tired communist formulae, but in converting to fundamentalist Islam! Yeah, I think we'd rather pay higher taxes.
True, such violence is likely to occur sometime, but it is intriguing to see the summer pass by in dull, lazy ordinariness.
