About 9/11 Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times that “The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror.”
Krugman says it should have been a unifying event, yet he uses it to attack Republicans. He feigns wanting closure, yet creates separation. He is divisive and angry. He is childishly petulant for a Nobel Prize winner. Like Obama, he uses the philosophy of blame to pin division on the opposition.
All Kerik, Giuliani and Bush were trying to do was add some direction in the chaos and unity in the disorder of the worst attack we ever suffered. The junk had just hit the fan and Bush had to make some fast decisions. He didn’t have Krugman’s or Obama’s luxury of criticizing a predecessor several years after the fact. I hesitate to think what Krugman or Obama would have done when confronted with their city collapsing. Perhaps Krugman would have gathered together the Pakistani cab drivers and asked them why they hated their American fares?
What did Krugman expect them do? Sit on the side and criticize our leadership like he did. His hatred of Republicans is so monolithic that he sees every coin as one-sided.
Krugman then says, “The attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neo-cons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.”
Does he forget that Sadam Hussein was advertising that he had weapons of mass destruction in order to frighten the Iranians. Most of the Senate and the House voted for going to war against Iraq. Krugman would have probably done the same thing if he had political power and was forced to do something more stringent than comment.
Listen, Krugman, things weren’t that clear after 9/11. Bush chose the best option available to him at the time. Don’t forget that Iraq had violated UN sanctions, had used WMD’s before on the Kurds and had fought us under G.H.W. Bush.
Krugman goes on to curse our dead, “The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame.” Yes, we are ashamed of Krugman who tries to use a tragic event to score points for his obsessive hatred of the Republicans. Krugman’s divisiveness and hatred of less-than-Ivy-League-thugs covers us in shame and embarrassment. It is a shame that he keeps spreading his self- hatred into a weapon against his betters.
Iraq was the right war. We created a democracy there until Obama pulled out the troops and threatened it with dissolution.
And we should be ashamed that Obama considered war in Afghanistan (a waste land of failed battles) the "right war" and shipped soldiers there to die, then pulled the remaining ones out to let the Afghanis die.
Krugman reminds me of Obama who reminds me of every liberal who pronounces by rote like dummies, “War is bad.” They fail to see that war is sometimes necessary, even if it is ugly. They criticize the Republicans for doing what has to be done to maintain the country. An insecure country is no country at all. It is a target for conquest.
The Democrats have a smug attitude while they remove our troops and let the indigenous populations die. Vietnam, Cambodia, and now Iraq is heading that way. The answer is rapidly becoming "don’t accept help from the United States because they will betray you in the end".
We should build a statue of Krugman sitting on an iron horse like Don Quixote on Rosinante in Central Park showing the stupidity, self-betrayal and naivety of a brilliant mind chasing his own windmills. Next to him they could put Senator Biden like Sancho Panza on a donkey named Dapple riding confused and grinning through the landscape.
