Seven Years On
September 11, 2008 | Aussie Dave | Comments 5
A few observations on this anniversary of 9/11:
- Seven years on, and people still don’t get what this war is about. Heck, most people still don’t get that we are in a war at all.
- Nice to see how Google has commemorated this day:
- Al Jazeera (predictably) reports a poll which suggests that more than 50 per cent of people “reject the official belief that the attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, were carried out by al-Qaeda.” Of particular interest:
Of the countries surveyed, Egypt and Jordan had the highest percentages of people who believed Israel was behind the attack, polling 43 and 31 per cent respectively.
Ain’t peace grand?
G-d bless America and the free world.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
Sentiment echoed. G-d Bless America, because we need all the help we can get!
The poisonous lie that Israel was behind the attacks started almost the same day. I got several e-mails to that effect (from person or persons unknown), as well as many more that suggested the USA beg forgiveness for "what we did to make them hate us." It is a war, a war to the death, and most people don't even see it.
Here's how the http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/world/africa/09...target=”_blank”>NYT described the conspiracy theories: It is easy for Americans to dismiss such thinking as bizarre. But that would miss a point that people in this part of the world think Western leaders, especially in Washington, need to understand: That such ideas persist represents the first failure in the fight against terrorism — the inability to convince people here that the United States is, indeed, waging a campaign against terrorism, not a crusade against Muslims. FWIW I blogged about it http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2008/09/...target=”_blank”>here. And Barry Rubin has a http://www.gloriacenter.org/index.asp?pname=subme...target=”_blank”>great take on it too.
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