God bless. In Pennsylvania and the Pentagon, too.
This entire blog, from every comment from every reader, to every picture and typo – all of what we together have built is a living monument to 9/11 and its consequences. Proof that we do remember. Specifically, a recollection of 9/11 itself, with a link back to STSOZ 1.0 and Flight 93.
What do you think 9/11 means for us going forward?
Dr Leo Strauss: The Rosen angle, he of Fox News, and the investigation of his alleged State Department contacts...
anxiousmodernman: I will hear Bob Woodward out, but the crime of Benghazi would be a crime of mismanagement. Not... anxiousmodernman: lol what? Dr Leo Strauss: It’s a great question – does he remember? Probably because it was not authentically him,... anxiousmodernman: I’m not a poli sci or PR strategist expert by any means, but here’s how I would win on...
Aldershot: http://si.wsj.net/public/resou rces/images/WO-AN661_RUSKER_G_ 20130507194232.jpg
Yes. Apparently. “@Galrahn: US killed INNOCENT Americans w/out due process using drones. But inYemen so no big deal!? http://t.co/Vme6SV3KM7 
@DrLeoStrauss I have no idea what you’re talking about, buddy. @KevinRothrock Kevin, think about the fundamental premise of the metric and example selected as a baseline. It's not even an extrapolation. @DrLeoStrauss Care to elaborate, Professor Strauss? Typical analytical errors but interesting.
“@KevinRothrock: How Big Is Alexey Navalny’s Army? http://t.co/RqvuFF3G8Q @AndreyTselikov” 
Blackwater security guards arrested yesterday for murder in Afghanistan – and the criminal enterprise rolls on. Democratic Underground enthusiasts follow it all with lavish detail. One should mention to them that Blackwater/Xe is a structural flaw at the heart of civil military relations. As long as the American President assigns under resourced missions those extra [...]
Wags might note the country’s first collective glimpse of consequences from its 2010 elections were Wisconsin Democrats fleeing and hiding from Movement activists wearing the Republican brand. But it’s past as prologue. If Wisconsin seems somehow ‘new’ that’s another symptom of decaying American collective short term memory. Karl Rove years ago recognized that a minority [...]
That’s what it was. Hollow, cheap bromides. Obama’s insight? ‘Out innovate competitors’ isn’t just meaningless. Innovation isn’t the American problem. It’s that once the R&D is done, the scale up to manufacturing is taken offshore. Not just because it’s cheaper. We’ve lost the entire network of infrastructure expertise necessary to proceed to scale manufacturing in [...]
As mentioned to Phillip Pasha on Twitter, am open minded but skeptical that any production in these times could capture the atmosphere and detail as the original. What will be, will be.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/competition/2011/sep/17/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-free-download
Right wingers can’t decide if anti Wall St. protestors matter or are worthy of foaming at the mouth about – Ah, haters gonna hate
https://twitter.com/#!/keder
@Comment Iraqis are buying F-16s! See?
http://www.kurdishglobe.net/display-article.html?id=34914C37FD73573B41400F3622F24D44
Gary Bauer – total joke. He’s only pro-life because he actually looks like a fetus.
@Comment Take heart. It’s actually a pretty thin list. The ragged remnants of AEI’s once proud Garde Impériale. Two PNAC types. Max Boot. Gary Bauer as outlier. If the Daily Show concocted a list, this would be it. More significant perhaps are the names not on it.
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/content/foreign-policy-experts-urge-president-obama-reconsider-troop-drawdown-iraq-0
Look at the list of names on that list – still taken seriously by corrupt media even after being wrong about everything. A murderer’s row of pro murder party people.
@Hunter
Hunter, a sad reminder of our amorphous, macht-based society. With the entire apparat corrupted by radical ideology, including the nominal overseerers, in Weberian terms each bureaucracy can be expected to seek maximization and synchronization with the Ruling Ethos.
This probably doesn’t belong here, but I couldn’t find another post on the front page right now where it would fit better:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-muslims-radical/all/1
Comments? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Agree, it’d be liberating to move beyond the victim stage. This past weekend spoke with some folks in the Mid West who were generally agitated about a potential calamity happening to them.
There was no rational conversation to be had. They had a *right* to be terrorized and thus part of a national drama.
I followed the links. And having attended The University in Charlottesville, I have followed Route 29 down to what locals call The Hook That place is so back in time. A trip there in a car would be in a cocoon as you said. But in going forward, I would hope we would give up The Fetish of the Victim and embrace a future that still might be.