Last year, on September 11th, 2006, I posted a rant on my blog. I was just re-reading it, and I thought it appropriate to post here, on this day, the day we remember and honor those who fight and die in wars, in our names.
I started off on this rant by copying something Markos had posted that morning.
In memory of a lot of things.
The Constitution only applies when the going gets easy.
War is the answer, even when you forget the question.
The truth is for sissies.
America has never faced an enemy as dangerous and as intent on killing us as King George, the Civil War, World War I, the Germans, the Japanese, a nuclear Soviet Union Al Qaeda.
The real September 11 story was badly in need of editing.
Just because they say it makes it so.
We have always been at war with Oceania.
A fool is born every election day.
Due process is for the innocent.
Patriotism means never having to say you're sorry.
It's all Sandy Berger's fault.
My input from that day with some modest updates below the fold.
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