Obama and the 9/11 murderers
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Thursday, September 10th at 8:58PM EDT 31 Comments
Tomorrow is the eight anniversary of the most heinous terrorist attack ever perpetrated on the United States. Thousands of our friends, family and fellow Americans were murdered in cold blood by vicious terrorists who hated America and what we stand for.
On September 19, 2001, a story ran in the Hyde Park Herald containing then-State-Senator Barack Obama’s response to the 9/11 tragedy. In this piece (quoted in this article from the New Yorker, under the heading “The Speech”), Obama expresses empathy for the murderers! Not anger, not disdain, not a word of sympathy for the victims. His concern was for the murderers
From Obama’s article:
So are we to feel sorry for these people, Mr. President? It’s not like it was a mystery that there were terrorists out there in the world like this back in 2001. We knew they weren’t poor & uneducated, as Obama seems to believe here. Ponder the fact that it is just this kind of leftist “thinking” that is driving the Marxist/fascist policies emanating from the White House today.We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding
the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me,
derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an
inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others.
Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the
desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a
particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a
particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or
fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and
ignorance, helplessness and despair.
Tomorrow, please pray for the families and friends of the victims, and pray for our country, that it not adopt the kind of thinking that Barack Obama expressed in 2001.
(h/t to Michelle Malkin for originally posting on this last September 11)
UPDATE: Contrast Barack Obama’s response with Tony Blair’s:
So what do we do? Don’t overreact some say. We aren’t. We haven’t lashedThat is the response of a leader. Obama’s response was that of a coward.
out. No missiles on the first night just for effect. Don’t kill innocent people.
We are not the ones who waged war on the innocent. We seek the guilty. Look for
a diplomatic solution. There is no diplomacy with Bin Laden or the Taliban
regime. State an ultimatum and get their response. We stated the ultimatum; they
haven’t responded. Understand the causes of terror. Yes, we should try, but let
there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of
11 September, and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could. The
action we take will be proportionate; targeted; we will do all we humanly can to
avoid civilian casualties.
But understand what we are dealing with. Listen to
the calls of those passengers on the planes. Think of the children on them, told
they were going to die. Think of the cruelty beyond our comprehension as amongst
the screams and the anguish of the innocent, those hijackers drove at full
throttle planes laden with fuel into buildings where tens of thousands worked.
They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could
have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000 does anyone doubt they would have done so and
rejoiced in it? There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of
minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or
be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. Any action taken will be against the
terrorist network of Bin Laden.
Yes, I am angry. Again.
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