This is a post from Mark Davis host of WBAP’s mid morning show. I thought I would share it.
Another weekend comes and goes. The NFL season under way. The kids back in school. Already I can sense that another 9/11 anniversary is fading from memory.
Friday was a very special day. We spent the show remembering, observing, analyzing The Day and the years since. It was an occasion to regard humanity at its worst, but also to celebrate humanity at its best. And America at its best.
Firefighters and other first responders. Ordinary people who reached out to help on that horrible day. The troops who wear our nation’s uniform, fighting to prevent more attacks. 9/11 showed us how bad people can be, but also reminded us how we can come together, joined by the bonds of shared humanity.
Humanity, after all, is the point. I do not believe we can share a human race with the kind of people who did this to us eight years ago. They cannot be bargained with, lured over to the side of reason or ignored. They must be killed. All them we can find. It is, as the saying goes, the only language they understand.
Our troops have done a magnificent job of disrupting al Qaeda, but there is much left to be done. Iraq cannot be allowed to slip back into peril. Afghanistan now cries out for additional forces. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says there is not much support in the country or in the Congress for that.
It kills me, but she is right.
Every year, the 9/11 anniversary seems to take us back to the feelings of that day, and then that righteous anger subsides. Hey, the kids have homework. The Cowboys are on. The routines of life require our attention.
I understand, up to a point. We cannot stay on an intense war footing 24/7/365. Our heads would explode. But somewhere between that and nonchalance is a responsible grasp of what we are up against and what we must do. It is a grasp we slowly lost before the first 9/11 anniversary, as the fringes and then the mainstream of American liberalism decided that if a war was going to lead to a potential positive for the George W. Bush legacy, it was to be opposed.
I often wonder: would it take another attack to give our short-attention-span nation some clarity on what we’re up against? I’d love to think not, but as we count each additional day and month and year without attacks, our dismissiveness increases our danger. – Mark Davis, WBAP
