Comments for September 11 and the Cicadas We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/september_11_an.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:45:15 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification September 11 and the Cicadas http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/september_11_an.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/september_11_an.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:10:40 -0600 Comment from fdcol63 on 2008-09-11 http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/03/0903/091103.html
" ... I’ve no doubt that if Seattle or Boston or Manhattan goes up in a bright white flash there will be those who blame it all on Bush. We squandered the world’s good will. We threw away the opportunity to atone, and lashed out. Really? You want to see lashing out? Imagine Kabul and Mecca and Baghdad and Tehran on 9/14 crowned with mushroom clouds: that’s lashing out. Imagine the President in the National Cathedral castigating Islam instead of sitting next to an Imam who's giving a homily. Mosques burned, oil fields occupied, smart bombs slamming into Syrian palaces. We could have gone full Roman on anyone we wanted, but we didn’t. And we won’t. "

"Which is why this war will be long."
 

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