New 9/11 Tradition

[Hogeye]

In an NWAPolitics editorial, Rick asked for suggestions for a 9/11 remembrance tradition.

I propose that the best way to remember the 9/11/01 homicides would be to make Sept. 11 Anti-Imperialism Day. We can write about and discuss the benefits of non-interventionism, and the terrible things that happen as a result of military intervention.

This goes along with Rick's bipartisan theme, since both "left" and "right" these days are equally interventionist. Sure, they differ somewhat in where they want to use military aggression and for what purposes, but both consider it legitimate foreign policy. They don't call it the "War Party" for nothing!

We could read Mark Twain's famous War Prayer and other great works of anti-imperialism, with authors ranging from Garet Garrett to Randolf Bourne to Murray Rothbard.

Here's a starter kit:
An Anti-Imperialist's Reading List by Joseph R. Stromberg
Part One
Part Two

[RickBaber]

I'd definately be in favor of such a day Hogeye. But getting the majority of the Ammurikun people to approve of such a title (or concept, once they are informed it doesn't apply strictly to WWII Japan) might be accomplished about the time George W. Bush gets the Nobel Prize for Peace, while they're having snowball fights in hell.

[Hogeye]

LOL! Yep, that's why I phrased it as "would it be a good thing" rather than "would it be politically feasible." Perhaps if Washington got nuked and dollars hyperinflated to worthlessness...

(But why didn't you vote in the poll?)

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Or how about the day the Air Force and Air National Guard were ordered to be "somewhere else" instead of scrambling to take down the threat? I'd prefer 9/11 not be remembered as anything but another day once we get passed the generation whose families died due to terrorist attacks that weren't stopped. The betrayal wasn't a bunch of Islamic fanatics - the betrayal was those planes weren't shot down by units whose only reason for existance is to monitor the air traffic and prevent any air attack from getting to its target.