Let's never forget

[Helevitia]

Wanted to bring this thread back up.

I want to add to what I said above: I hope that all of the troops from all over the world that are still fighting in IRAQ, come home soon. May god bless them all.

[Elie]

Amen!

[ZokesPro]

I saw it all live. I will never forget it.

[schmosef]

We will never forget. But sadly, many of us will never understand why:

From "The Forbidden History" @ Victor Davis Hanson

Four years after 9/11 the postmortem of that disaster continues to focus on the institutional failures of our intelligence agencies and government bureaucracies. Yet the larger intellectual and cultural corruption that in part made possible many of those misjudgments and mistakes does not receive the public attention it deserves. The politicizing of the academy, for example, that accelerated in the sixties had compromised the study of Islam and the Middle East long before Islamic terrorism appeared on our cultural radar. Because of this ideological distortion, centuries of consensus about the aggressive, intolerant, and expansionist nature of Islam –– an agreement reflecting both the facts of the historical record and the words themselves of the Koran and Muslim theologians and jurists –– were discarded in the service of an anti-Western political and ideological agenda.

In this politicized narrative, the West is the arch-villain of history, and its primal sins of colonialism and imperialism are the engines of oppression responsible for all the world’s ills. With regard to Islam and the Middle East, the West’s scholars are accused of creating “orientalism,” a collection of degrading myths and stereotypes that masqueraded as scholarship and provided the intellectual grease for the wheels and gears of colonial and imperial exploitation. With some few notable exceptions, the myth of orientalism has corrupted many of the scholars studying Islam in American and European universities. The result has been a reduction of history to a melodrama in which a noble, tolerant, cultured Islamic world had been unjustly attacked by an intolerant, greedy West addled by Christian bigotry and racist stereotypes of blood-thirsty jihadist warriors. All the problems in the Middle East today, in this Orwellian rewriting of history, thus derive not from anything dysfunctional in Islam or Arab regimes but rather in the sins of the West and its Middle Eastern minion, Israel.

Among the brave scholars who have worked to correct these distortions –– Bernard Lewis, Martin Kramer, Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Bat Ye’or, Ibn Warraq, to name just a few––Dr. Andrew G. Bostom has recently been one of the most tireless. In his columns at American Thinker, Dr. Bostom has exposed the politicized interpretations, half-truths, and outright lies that our enemies and their Western enablers have used to obscure the truth about the struggle we are in. Now Dr. Bostom has compiled an invaluable collection of primary documents and scholarly commentary concerning jihad. This compendium shows that Islamic jihad has for fourteen centuries meant exactly what bin Laden, Zaraqawi, and every other so-called “Islamic fundamentalist” says it means: a war to compel the whole world to embrace Islam, die, or live under intolerant, humiliating restrictions designed to force the unbeliever every day to acknowledge his own inferiority and the superiority of his Islamic overlords.

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My thoughts are always with the brave soldiers, from all over the world, fighting for freedom.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Theres an excellent 9/11 dvd i bought for my parents to watch. if you all havent seen it i would rent it.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

[Helevitia]

Is this the one with the two french film makers? If so, it is truly an in your face film. I had a hard time listening to the bodies hit the ground while they were filming. It was almost too much to bare.

[Dr Mordrid]

I saw that footage on live TV before they blacked it out, and that was even harder to bear. Harder yet is knowing people that were in the towers when they fell.

It's gonna be a tough day to get through.

Dr. Mordrid

[UtwigMU]

My thoughts are with people who died that day.

[TransformX]

If only they were the last casualties of worldwide terrorism

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Is this the one with the two french film makers? If so, it is truly an in your face film. I had a hard time listening to the bodies hit the ground while they were filming. It was almost too much to bare.

yes thats the one.
i cried just about the enitre time i watched this dvd the second time around.

[Helevitia]

Yes, I was very emotional watching this film. My wife and I watched it together. Very sad, yet it was inspirational in so many ways.

[Liquid Snake]

I was out of town today, but I took a minute to remember the events of September 11, 2001 shortly before I left at 9. Sad, but things go on. The rebuilding of the new PATH transit hub at the WTC should begin soon and other projects in Lower Manhattan are already started. The actual WTC is still up in the air because of some squabbling over the plans. After all this time, I think most New Yorkers just want something to get built, regardless of the design or the memorial.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

i signed the position at the trump tower for them to be built the same way as they were. i was for the other plan at first til i visited NYC, then traveling around for the week and having a feel for the city i hoped they would rebuild the same as it was.

[Nowhere]

They shouldn't rebuild it the same way IMHO. It's almost like saying that nothing has happened there...