Thanks to a small group of Navy Seals, Osama Bin Laden has been sent to meet his 72 virgins. President Obama is receiving a lot of credit for this successful action, and he should. He certainly would have received blame had it gone awry. We should all be thankful that a full measure of revenge combined with justice has been handed out to the mastermind of 911 by our courageous Navy Seals.
I was in Quebec on the morning of 911. We immediately headed for Burlington, Vermont and a potential flight home. The airport was closed, so we drove another 14 hours to reach Washington, D.C., arriving at my step-daughter’s house around 11:00 P.M. Within 15 minutes of our arrival, my (then) son-in-law casually remarked that the 3000+ people who died in the Twin Towers got exactly what they deserved! I exploded in anger at him, but he didn’t back down. The next morning he mocked a stockbroker who had dissolved in tears in front of a TV camera. Back home I read an article in the ICO about a small group of locals holding a ceremony (celebration?) on the beach in which the leader described the fall of the Towers as “something graceful” to behold. The ICO editorial that week opined that “America had been brought to her knees.”
These post-911 incidents marked my first realization that there was a sickness in this country that went beyond legitimate political disagreements. This anti-American sickness still resides in the twisted philosophy of many on the Far Left and has become a stain on the Democrat Party. It seems fitting that a Left-leaning President has kept in place key anti-terrorism policies designed to protect America and the good for which it stands.
Jim Littlejohn
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