Still confused 8 years later

Walid Phares’ op-ed on 9/11 is definitely worth reading:

In no conflict throughout history were people still confused about the threat eight years after hostilities began. For America, neither WWI nor WWII had lasted half that long. And in those wars we not only achieved victory in that time, but we knew long before that – with crystalline precision – who our foes were and what we had to do to defeat them.

How is it that many Americans are still confused eight years on? Because while the media has no problems showing footage of American troops dying (which they somehow obtain from the terrorists) they forbid showing footage of the World Trade Center. That might whip Americans into a patriotic frenzy and make us question why we haven’t been allowed to do squat to turn the tide against the terrorists.

Democrat politicians feel that any mention of 9/11 is a dirty Republican trick as they have fully invested themselves in the defeat of our military – to the point that sick, politically-correct Rules of Engagement deny our fighting forces air and artillery support – even if that unit is being overrun. No words can describe the anger I feel towards politicians and the activist, state-run media on this day each year.

Our military sacrifices so much, and we have only them to thank as they have been left flapping in the breeze by two administrations for eight years now. They have fought the Islamic terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries that many Americans couldn’t find on a map for years, and what progress they have made has been despite the best efforts of gutless politicians in Washington.

If we want to fight the Islamic terrorists with our military, then the U.S. had better get its collective head out of the sand and realize who our enemy is and their intentions. If not, we will resume fighting them with firefighters, police officers, and other emergency workers. The casualties won’t be senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, they will be innocent women and children as they were eight years ago. That is unacceptable.