The left, it seems, are whispering in the ear of public consciousness. Sleep they say. It has merely been a bad dream. There is no need of further earth shaking action. Return to your 9/10 dreams while we return to our triumphal 1968 purple haze.

Never mind that the events of 9/11 were the culmination of more than 20 years of steadily escalating provocation.

Pay no attention to the steady slide of Europe into dhimmitude.

No, they say, only the right could bring such evils to our shores. We have freedom of the press and freedom of religion to defend us from such enemies abroad.

WAKE

UP

Besides being flat wrong on their facts and “reasoning”, and lacking any useful context, they direct our attention to events well and truly behind us which will now be judged by history. What matters now is the path forward.

I cannot improve upon Christopher Hitchen’s conclusion, so I instead reproduce it:

Well, if everyone else is allowed to rewind the tape and replay it, so can I. We could have been living in a different world, and so could the people of Iraq, and I shall go on keeping score about this until the last phony pacifist has been strangled with the entrails of the last suicide-murderer.