Saved for posterity. Disgusting, revolting posterity:
September 11, 2011, 8:41 amThe Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te 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. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te 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. And… Read more »
El Gordo nails it.
By Krug’s logic, the Mayor and the President and all of their first responders should have cowed down in bunkers and waited for the dust to settle. Then they could come out, count the bodies, denounce the acts of violence, promise to get to the bottom of it, make the necessary changes to prevent future events of this type, and… Read more »
If Krugman is trying to get attention to show that he is an idiot, then he has succeeded!!! When somebody like this moron makes outlandish statements like those, then he is playing the “stupid” card for what it is worth. Why didn’t Klugman blame GWB for the 9/11, they blame him for everything else?
Insert dreaded acronym here.
FWIW; it has NOT been pulled and prolly won’t be.
Thanks Hamous for saving it just in case.
Krugman has never impressed me with his intelligence.
He now impresses me even less with his common sense.
NO comments because he does not want to be reminded just how out of touch with reality he really is. This guy gives POS a bad name, and the NYT is nothing but a collection of crapola, hopefully soon to be defunct.
Where’s that mental health warrant for Krugman? Get the fellows with the butterfly nets and the funny jacket. The NYT does not cover itself in glory by running his opinion pieces. It covers itself in something quite the opposite. Same goes for every paper that runs his stuff.
Krugman is a prime example of the effete bed-wetters who think that 9-11 is our fault because we did something to offend the nutter community within Islam. I lived in Turkey for two years in the early 1970’s. We lived about three blocks from the Officer’s club (it and lots of other US/NATO military offices & functions were located in… Read more »
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/paul-krugman-911-has-become-an-occasion-for-shame/
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te 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. And… Read more »
El Gordo nails it.
By Krug’s logic, the Mayor and the President and all of their first responders should have cowed down in bunkers and waited for the dust to settle. Then they could come out, count the bodies, denounce the acts of violence, promise to get to the bottom of it, make the necessary changes to prevent future events of this type, and… Read more »
If Krugman is trying to get attention to show that he is an idiot, then he has succeeded!!! When somebody like this moron makes outlandish statements like those, then he is playing the “stupid” card for what it is worth. Why didn’t Klugman blame GWB for the 9/11, they blame him for everything else?
Insert dreaded acronym here.
FWIW; it has NOT been pulled and prolly won’t be.
Thanks Hamous for saving it just in case.
Krugman has never impressed me with his intelligence.
He now impresses me even less with his common sense.
NO comments because he does not want to be reminded just how out of touch with reality he really is. This guy gives POS a bad name, and the NYT is nothing but a collection of crapola, hopefully soon to be defunct.
Where’s that mental health warrant for Krugman? Get the fellows with the butterfly nets and the funny jacket. The NYT does not cover itself in glory by running his opinion pieces. It covers itself in something quite the opposite. Same goes for every paper that runs his stuff.
Krugman is a prime example of the effete bed-wetters who think that 9-11 is our fault because we did something to offend the nutter community within Islam. I lived in Turkey for two years in the early 1970’s. We lived about three blocks from the Officer’s club (it and lots of other US/NATO military offices & functions were located in… Read more »
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/paul-krugman-911-has-become-an-occasion-for-shame/