Last week was a time for commemorating 9/11 five years on. Speaking for myself, which is what I always do, I was struck by how many of the commemorations and thought-pieces dwelt on the tragedy as if it were some kind of natural disaster, rather than the organised destruction that it was.
9/11 was no natural disaster. It was a fully man-made event, at once a mass-murder and a declaration of war. To ignore that is not only a gross injustice to the memory of the innocents who died on that day and in subsequent man-made horrors, but it ignores the very real threat that the continued existence of the planners of those mass-murders represents.
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The failure to roll up Osama and his co-conspirators may also have led to this feeling of ‘natural’ disaster. I see this as a key failing in campaign against terror. No effort should have been spared to find and eliminate the leadership of the enemy. I understand that there have been no important leads as to their whereabouts in the past two years. This is extraordinarily incompetent on someone’s part somewhere. If I were President I would make sure some heads rolled in the CIA. The public need a regular string of victories to keep them from falling into despair or ennui. Remember the joy at getting Z-man in Iraq?
ReplyDeleteVictory at any cost I say even if you have to manufacture the odd one to keep the momentum going.