It really ticks me off to hear Mr. I’ll-only-stand-up-to-terrorists-and-criminals-if-it-doesn’t-hurt-me-politically-President-Obama, and to hear mister Obama get up, and pretend that none of the work done by President Bush, and the Government, and the civilians before Obama, was work that did nothing to stop terrorists.
It really makes me exceedingly mad to hear Obama get up and make a claim, on 9/11/2011, that HE THINKS THAT ONLY HE,OBAMA, made any big defeats against the Al Qaeda terrorist/and criminal group.

The U.S., under President Bush, Jr., made countless defeats of Al Qaeda and other terrorists, who tried to sneak guns bombs into the United States, when they captured these criminals. And this is all when: mister pipsqueak, lying and bullying-Mr. Obama, did close to nothing, to protect America, During the 2000 to 2008 years, those years when Al Qaeda was in a war to the death, against The United States. An unending war, that Obama chose to ignore, during the years of 2001-2008.
Mr. Obama, you are truly a man who deserves to hang his head in shame.

if you use your power wisely and well, then people will not know you benefit, and the one wielding will not feel it.

for the sociopathic, power has to be felt
and doing something people dont want, and their being helpless to change that, is what such does to FEEL power… as for them power is not something silent to enjoy and feel good about the fruits of its proper use. for them its a form of real sadism.

Cordoba was the capital of the caliphate during much of the middle ages. The choice is definitely intentional.

What do I hope for the future?…That the repercussions of that day will enhance the spread of liberty both in this country and around the world, so that none of the people who perished on 9/11 will have died in vain.

I also hope that turns out to be true in the long run, but in the short run the government’s responses to 9/11 have curtailed our liberty. By any rational measurement we are less free today than we were on 9/10/2001. The hideous totalitarian bureaucratic monstrosity that is the TSA is only the most visible example. The size of the federal government nearly doubled during the Bush years, and for much of that time the Republicans controlled Congress. It has gotten far worse under the Democrats, but statists in both parties have not “let the crisis go to waste”.

There’s a good post up today at the Market Ticker, Rethinking 9/11 Ten Years On. It is not so much a remembrance of 9/11 as an assessment of where we are today. Denninger makes the point that our own government’s response to 9/11 has caused more damage to our society than the terrorists did. It’s a post worth reading, and there are lots of good comments, too. I’ve left a few there myself.