Scip Barnhart's chilling 2002 tribute to 9-11
9/11 - Eight Years Later -Elliot Chodoff
The world was shocked by the events of September 11, 2001...
Eight years later, it appears that complacent amnesia has overtaken the countries that marched shoulder to shoulder just a few years ago.
The new American administration has begun, ironically, on the same foot as its predecessor, and for the same reasons. When George W. Bush entered the White House, he put the fight against terrorists on the back burner, since this had been a central theme of the Clinton Administration. Unwilling to give any credit to the defeated party, the Bush team cut back on counterterrorist activity. This shift contributed to the surprise of 9/11, as repeated warnings were either ignored or prevented from moving up the chain of command. Osama Bin Laden graphically and tragically reminded America that terrorism deserved greater attention.
The Obama Administration, seeking to distance itself from its predecessor, has repeated the errors of the early Bush Administration. This time, with a policy of “engagement”, the US is attempting to convince regimes, like Syria, that support terrorists, to change their course, so far, with little success.
[T]he move to investigate, and perhaps indict, counterterrorist agents and others for “war crimes” points to a severe case of amnesia in respect to the well-founded fears of further attacks in the days and months after 9/11.
[I]f we continue on the path of amnesia and ignorance, the terrorists will remind and teach us, using their traditionally bloody graphic methods, what we should have bothered to learn on our own.
[MidEast On Target]
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