9/11 Remembrance: More Spinning Than An Industrial Washing Machine August 31, 2011
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics.trackback
I just read the LA Times article from my blogmate’s last post. This is just more of what I was talking about before, the “everything Obama does is wrong” paradigm. If you read the outline for the suggested direction of the commemoration objectively, it doesn’t sound at all outlandish, unpatriotic, or distasteful. We are reminded to remember those who died in the attack but we are urged not to concentrate on revenge, blame, and fear, but to learn from the tragedy and look to the future, to move forward. How in the world are any of these concepts wrong? One can only imagine what the festivities would be if Bush were still president or how they might look under Perry or Bachmann or Palin. First and foremost would be a national day of prayer. Then would come the exhortations of eternal vigilance and warnings over the threats of global Islamism and Sharia Law. Then the F-15 flyover in the “missing man” formation. I’m sure that those things would make a lot of people more comfortable, and maybe that’s a good thing, but the suggestions of the current administration are comforting in a way that speaks to progress and peace, and that’s better still.
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