Another Infamous Day

Posted by Bill Hennessy

September 11, 2001

At 8:45 AM, a hijacked American Airlines 767, under control of a terrorist, was deliberately crashed into the side of the World Trade Center’s South tower in a cowardly act of war designed to kill thousands of innocent American civilians. Minutes later, a second hi-jacked American Airlines jet smashed into the North Tower.

Those towers, that symbol of capitalism in the heart of lower Manhattan, are now gone. New York’s most visible symbols of freedom and prosperity have vanished from the skyline. Presumably thousands are dead.
As those buildings collapsed upon themselves, the world’s symbol of military power, the Pentagon, came under similar attack, again with devastating results. American service members are dead and wounded in the first attack against American military forces in the continental United States by foreign forces since the War of 1812. The Pentagon, which captured the imaginations of millions of Americans throughout the Cold War, a building designed after the forts which guarded America’s coastal rivers and islands during the 18^th century, is partially reduced to rubble. Patton said, “Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity.”Today, our most famous fixed fortification stands as a monument to man’s capacity for evil.
We, as modern Americans, now know how our fathers and mothers felt on December 7, 1941, when news began to reach our shores that the Empire of Japan had attacked our Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii. As with any grief, we find ourselves, in moments of thoughtful silence, we find our eyes filling with tears of sadness and anger. We reflect on other seminal moments in history, both those we remember and those we know from history. We, the people, also begin to mentally steel ourselves for war.
Make no mistake: America is at war–a war that will cost lives of our sons and daughters; a war that has already killed thousands in one day alone. Part of steeling ourselves involves our willingness to not only deal with the deaths of loved ones, but to desire, indeed thirst for, the blood and deaths of our enemies. We begin to look forward with joyful anticipation, the news footage of old ladies in enemy countries mourning the deaths of their filthy, terrorist, cowardly sons.
For far too long, the west has capitulated to whiny, spineless liberals, the soccer moms, who think everyone in the world is “nice” and “sweet”and well-meaning. In fact, life is about conflict. War is as much a part of life as eating. Pacifists bear as much responsibility for the loss of life in New York and Virginia as the very terrorists who steered those hijacked planes into the those buildings. Let the pacifists and peaceniks be branded traitors and terrorists and hunted down in the streets by angry mobs.
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch today called on the U. S. Government to deliver to Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, and Afghanistan the following ultimatum: Turn over to U. S. military all terrorists within your borders known to us or to you, or prepare for total, indiscriminate, and permanent destruction of your countries. In other words, let us kill your terrorists and destroy their operations, or we will kill every man, woman, and child who poses a possible threat to America and Americans. That’s precisely what President Bush must do.
First, Iraq claims to have shot down two American spy planes in the last week. Stupidly, the U.S. denies Iraq’s claims. Screw that. Admit that Iraq shot them down and use those acts as the excuse to reduce all of Iraq the powdery silicone from whence it sprang.
Next, tell Palestine that the U.S. is tired of dealing with the constant war in the Middle East. Tell them to accept Israel’s best offer within 48 hours or the U.S. will encourage Israel to annihilate Palestinians.
Third, tell Pakistan, which officially treats Osama bin Laden as a great world leader, to get a new government that opposes the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, or the United States will eliminate Pakistan’s nuclear and conventional weaponry through massive, widespread attack, possibly including military occupation.
Fourth, give Afghanistan 24 hours to turn over bin Laden. Who cares if that’s an impossible demand. Who cares whether or not bin Laden is actually responsible for this. He’s responsible for enough. Besides, we have the capacity to deliver terror like bin Laden could never imagine. It’s terror delivered by Submarine Launched and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and it’s a terror that the world will not soon forget. Use Afghanistan to test some nukes. Use the elimination of that hell-hole in the Southern Asia as proof of a new American policy: State sponsored or state-permitted terrorism against the United States or its allies will be met with the immediate nuclear annihilation of the sponsoring or permitting nation. No exceptions.
Fifth, warn the world that we melted down Afghanistan without knowing for sure whether it was the source of this particular act of terrorism. We knew it harbored a known terrorist. We knew it supported and protected bin Laden. Yet our resolve is such that we will use any weapons at our disposal to kill massive numbers of people in any country suspected of harboring terrorists. That warning is not limited to our enemies: Let France be warned.
Sixth, as an act of pure defiance, use government money and resources, if necessary, to rebuild the World Trade Center to its antebellum condition. Apply massive resources so that the new complex can open on September 11, 2002. Make this a symbol to the world that no one messes with America.
Finally, withdraw from the United Nations, seize the building, and turn it into the WTC annex. It’ll make a nice temporary WTC for the year it takes to rebuild the Twin Towers.

This plan will end both private and state-sponsored terrorism against the United States, and I don’t give a hoot in hell what the rest of the world thinks.