Lunatic Fashion

Another day in my high school, another September 11, another "town meeting" to commemorate the day. Let's read the names of the dead. Let's discuss how this affected me. Let's boo hoo hoo. Let's us us us. Victims this and victims that.

This is not to say I don't shed tears about this. See above. But count me out of the group hugs. I cry alone.

Read the names? Hell, call me hostile but effin' yeah, I'm more interested in looking at the ugly mugs of the ugly sons of ugly bitches who pulled this off. Call me hostile, but effin' yeah, I'm more interested in discussing their evil. That might be a better commemoration -- and a better use of community time -- than oh so reverently reciting three thousand names.
Evil exists people.

Meanwhile, here's a partial from Victor Davis Hanson. As always, he seems to get it.
The Other 9/11 Story
What has and hasn't happened in the seven years since September 11, 2001.
The truth is, we chased al-Qaeda from Iraq and Afghanistan and it is now in lunatic fashion chasing Danish cartoonists, European novelists, and opera producers as it cuts the fingers off smokers, tries to cover up the genitalia of animals, and looks for the mentally ill to strap on suicide belts.

Long after Jacques Chirac, Michael Moore, Gerhard Schroeder, and Cindy Sheehan have come, gone, and nearly disappeared, a General David Petraeus and thousands of American soldiers and diplomats like him remain. George W. Bush is reviled, in part because of an inability to articulate what the war against terror was, and what it was for. But Bush hatred has been reduced to a sort of politically correct trinket, worn around the neck of the clannish critics as a reminder of the President’s ineptness in expression or supposedly dangerous views — without examining what others might have done to achieve the same results of achieving freedom from further attack.

But in years to come it may well be said that the president kept us safe for years when none thought he could, and removed the two most odious regimes in the Middle East and replaced them with the two best — and confronted a confident and ascendant radical Islam and left it demoralized and discredited among its own host Arab and Muslim constituents.

In the present toxic environment, all of that is not to be spoken — but all that has nevertheless happened since September 11.