tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post2963758490319416418..comments2024-03-29T07:49:20.875-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Sept. 11, 2014Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-54139523022603339942020-09-11T11:43:03.212-05:002020-09-11T11:43:03.212-05:006 years later and still relevant6 years later and still relevantsanfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06580867647162091670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51585996782617482642014-09-11T12:53:13.277-05:002014-09-11T12:53:13.277-05:00The most disturbing aspect of the whole thing for ...The most disturbing aspect of the whole thing for me is this: After 9/11, the country rallied around George W. Bush, which is why he was able to rush us into that stupid war.<br /><br />If, God forbid, a similar catastrophe should occur under Obama, do you think his opponents would rally around...sorry, I can't even finish that question without laughing.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69741772538141007012014-09-11T12:47:50.882-05:002014-09-11T12:47:50.882-05:00Yes, you're correct. I think I just looked at ...Yes, you're correct. I think I just looked at the poll, not really thinking back to the day. I'll leave it as is now, though. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-23558296241114918522014-09-11T12:21:48.896-05:002014-09-11T12:21:48.896-05:00I apologize for doubling down on my original comme...I apologize for doubling down on my original comment, Neil, but since you edited your original remarks to make them even more definitive, I feel compelled to. You do realize, I would hope, that 47% saying that the country is less safe than before 9/11 is, in part, a way for the "Obama is an empty suit" contingent to voice their opposition to him and his presidency. I'd think that pulling out your newspaper and magazine archive of the day and days after might remind you of what the feeling, especially in big cities, was then, which lingered for quite a while. The fear then was palpable, and justified, given what had taken place. Most of the people I knew felt another attack, of some kind, was imminent. It was nothing like the amorphous unease and genuine disgust caused by the "scary stuff going on" now. Whatever the polls might say, by 2002 I think most folks were just surprised and relieved that no other terrible attacks had transpired. Not that you, or anybody else, cares, but I find the sentence "It's even worse than in the immediate aftermath of the attacks." to be unnecessary and hyperbolic. Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-53440659880815564802014-09-11T11:08:38.029-05:002014-09-11T11:08:38.029-05:00You certainly inspired a wide range of comments to...You certainly inspired a wide range of comments today. It seems everyone has a different perspective on this most public of events. From day one, I tried to distance myself from it and avoided even viewing the planes hitting the buildings for many years. I think you did a fine job, Neil, describing the ambivalence surrounding everything that happened that day and as a consequence of that day. And the comments above, most from people much less doubtful of their opinions than you, added flesh to those bones. We may have something of a consensus of the "Day of Infamy" some 73 years ago, but even there you can find ambivalence and widespread disagreement. 73 years from now, the events will seem closer in time and perhaps connected in some way. But it doesn't look like we're on the verge of learning anything from either.<br /><br />John <br />tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06215684866966011198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-65992708864795829832014-09-11T09:14:23.503-05:002014-09-11T09:14:23.503-05:00Thanks. Thanks. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-10225524083456139812014-09-11T09:03:58.227-05:002014-09-11T09:03:58.227-05:00Personal connections can make memories of 9-11 mor...Personal connections can make memories of 9-11 more vivid. I worked for the Army until a year before that happened and frequently attended meetings in the Pentagon, sometimes in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, sitting at a little conference table with a nice view over the east lawn down to the Patomac. Had I been there that morning it would have been my last.<br /><br />And I was moved by E-mails from a friend who lives on New York's upper east side telling of all the people in his building who had left that morning for their jobs in the World Trade Center and never returned. Oddly enough, it brought to mind A.A. Milne's spooky little poem about a little boy named James, James Morrison, Morrison, Weatherby George Dupree, who said to his mother, said he "You must never go down to the end of the town, if you don't go down with me."Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-41604053311924589772014-09-11T08:28:54.086-05:002014-09-11T08:28:54.086-05:00Nice column, Neil. This deserves a much wider for...Nice column, Neil. This deserves a much wider forum.Tony M.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-87247862055319881442014-09-11T07:44:13.031-05:002014-09-11T07:44:13.031-05:00No, not an inside job.
But an excuse for some of...No, not an inside job.<br /> <br />But an excuse for some of the most pernicious acts in the name of the United States ever.<br /> <br />Fear is the coin of the realm now. (see, ISIS.) Saudi Arabia beheaded 25 in August, some for the crime of being gay. Must we wait for one to be shown on video before we can muster the fear and outrage?Must the victim be American?<br /> <br />That's why I hate 9/11. We allowed monsters to take over, both foreign and domestic. I do love firemen and paramedics for their work.Kass Johnsinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-40124388082331649122014-09-11T07:21:11.354-05:002014-09-11T07:21:11.354-05:00"Inside job"? That comment is an insult ..."Inside job"? That comment is an insult of the highest order to those that died on 9/11, and the rest of us still surviving the day. <br /><br />It mystifies that such an obviously crackpot theory holds any credibility with anyone.Tom Zielinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12723629129583351729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51006646908800115162014-09-11T06:37:17.684-05:002014-09-11T06:37:17.684-05:00I remember Sept. 11, 2001 for the release of the B...I remember Sept. 11, 2001 for the release of the Bob Dylan album Love and Theft. Great album. The stuff in NY? The Fourth Reich's Reichstag Fire to justify war and fascism. Phony baloney. An inside job. Don't believe the hype, then or now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-77720748550895994622014-09-11T00:33:53.146-05:002014-09-11T00:33:53.146-05:00"Fear is up this year." This seems to b..."Fear is up this year." This seems to be the case. "Even worse than in the immediate aftermath of the attacks." Nope, not even close. Jakashnoreply@blogger.com