Have we forgotten what we're up against?
Last night I went to see World Trade Center. Granted I didn't "like it" as much as I "liked" United 93 (you can't really like such films). Part of this is because Oliver Stone directed it - even though I will give him points for being "Nuetral" when it comes to his typical liberal filth.
That said I know the question arises that "Hey is it too early for movies like this, because the memory is so fresh?" On one hand I would say that maybe yes, it is too soon, certianly for those that found themselves in the middle of the events that transpired on 9/11. Yet on the other hand I wonder if we as a nation have forgotten what we're dealing with here when it comes to fighting the GWOT and against radical/militant islamists that, yes, want to kill us because we are Americans, because they see us as inferior infidels - and this war is fought on several fronts.
Cal Thomas has an excellent article that once again adresses what we are dealing with, what we are up against.
I ask such questions in light of recent attempts (foiled, thank God) be terrorists to kill more innocent people, the veiled threats made by Iran alluding to August 22, 2006, the August 31, 2006 date for Iran to end uranium enrichement - as stated by the impotent United Nations Security Council, and most importantly, the failed chance by Mike Wallace of CBS news to hit the President of Iran with some hard questions in a sit down interview in Tehran.
This interview frightens me. It does so because as the blog Regime Change Iran pointed out with it's link to another excellent article, the key to understanding the motivation for President Ahmadinejad's policy is to understand his apocolyptic brand of Islamic faith; something that Mike Wallace didn't do at all! Instead he leads the American public to believing that the Iranian President isn't an Anti-Semite, but yet the media subliminally propigates the idea that Mel Gibson is.
Joel Rosenberg recently wrote an article that is a must read for anyone concerned about this Mike Wallace screw-up. Rosenberg deals with what Ahmadinejad should have been asked so that America would get the correct picture instead of one that paints this messianic physcopath as "a good guy" - as Mike Wallace commented on Sean Hannity's radio show, and this said about someone who wants to "wipe Israel off the map"?
These are the type of people that we deal with, threats foreign and domestic, and yes I think that such a cavilear attitude by certian members of the media is indeed a threat.
This, among other reasons, is why we can't forget what happened almost five years ago (and how it changed everything) because once we begin to forget, we become lax, and it is then that the terrorist enemy begins to gain a victory (and we a loss) that to us, largely remains invisible.
That said I know the question arises that "Hey is it too early for movies like this, because the memory is so fresh?" On one hand I would say that maybe yes, it is too soon, certianly for those that found themselves in the middle of the events that transpired on 9/11. Yet on the other hand I wonder if we as a nation have forgotten what we're dealing with here when it comes to fighting the GWOT and against radical/militant islamists that, yes, want to kill us because we are Americans, because they see us as inferior infidels - and this war is fought on several fronts.
Cal Thomas has an excellent article that once again adresses what we are dealing with, what we are up against.
I ask such questions in light of recent attempts (foiled, thank God) be terrorists to kill more innocent people, the veiled threats made by Iran alluding to August 22, 2006, the August 31, 2006 date for Iran to end uranium enrichement - as stated by the impotent United Nations Security Council, and most importantly, the failed chance by Mike Wallace of CBS news to hit the President of Iran with some hard questions in a sit down interview in Tehran.
This interview frightens me. It does so because as the blog Regime Change Iran pointed out with it's link to another excellent article, the key to understanding the motivation for President Ahmadinejad's policy is to understand his apocolyptic brand of Islamic faith; something that Mike Wallace didn't do at all! Instead he leads the American public to believing that the Iranian President isn't an Anti-Semite, but yet the media subliminally propigates the idea that Mel Gibson is.
Joel Rosenberg recently wrote an article that is a must read for anyone concerned about this Mike Wallace screw-up. Rosenberg deals with what Ahmadinejad should have been asked so that America would get the correct picture instead of one that paints this messianic physcopath as "a good guy" - as Mike Wallace commented on Sean Hannity's radio show, and this said about someone who wants to "wipe Israel off the map"?
These are the type of people that we deal with, threats foreign and domestic, and yes I think that such a cavilear attitude by certian members of the media is indeed a threat.
This, among other reasons, is why we can't forget what happened almost five years ago (and how it changed everything) because once we begin to forget, we become lax, and it is then that the terrorist enemy begins to gain a victory (and we a loss) that to us, largely remains invisible.
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