AGW -- 09-11-2001

It has been 8 years since that morning of 9-11. It still seems like yesterday. I think it always will.

Apparently, this is not true for everyone. Many have forgotten the lesson of 9-11, the need to be ever vigilant. Of course, 9-11 happened because we had forgotten that lesson before, just as an earlier generation had forgotten it in 1941.

The nature of Man is fickle. Having avoided, prevented, nipped-in-the-bud another home-soil terrorist attack, we have returned to a sense of complacency. Aslan reminds the children several times in the Chronicles of Narnia that "no one is told what would have happened." This allows the muddled-headed to assert that genuine security successes were against threats that never would have happened anyway. "You prevented a bridge from being blown up in NYC? Hah! There were no explosives in place. You just caught 5 guys you illegally profiled with a few clumsy drawings." Apparently, without a Goldfinger moment where the nuclear bomb is turned off just in the nick of time, there is no event, no interdiction, no success.

Currently, legislation awaits approval to spend an enormous amount of money to combat "climate change" even though those most convinced that doom is upon us say said legislation will do nothing to fix the problem. In the meantime, Speaker of the House "Nancy Pelosi said she sees little congressional support for boosting troop levels in Afghanistan...."

Once again, we are victimizing ourselves with complacency.

And stupidity. Can't forget about stupidity.