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May 24, 2004

Amen

Posted by Bill

Go read Jeff's great post fisking the lunacy emanating from Michael Berg:

Look, we all felt that way on the morning of September 11, 2001. We all looked at our televisions (some unlucky millions looked out their windows) and wanted to know just what we had to do to make it stop. Pull our troops out of Prince Sultan? Sure. Drop our case against Iraq? No problem. Forsake our friends and allies in Israel? Get out of my way, I wanna be first in line.

That's what terrorism is supposed to do. It's supposed to make you so petrified, so dismayed, so discouraged that you just give up. Doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong; you just give up.

A successful act of terrorism isn't any one in which people die. It's one in which the status quo changes as a result of those deaths. If we make sweeping changes to our foreign policy that benefit those who carried out that attack against us, then the attack has been successful.

If Michael Berg had been in charge on the morning of 9/11, it would have been the most spectacularly successful act of terrorism ever perpetrated in the history of the world.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Posted by Bill at May 24, 2004 01:14 PM | TrackBack (1)

Comments

Thanks for the kind words, Bill. You made my day.

Posted by: Jeff Harrell at May 24, 2004 01:41 PM

It's all been said before, but you give us a nicely-worded reminder. Thanks.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at May 24, 2004 05:47 PM